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Fox News Is Sued by Election Technology Company for over $2.7B

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> Smartmatic, which provided services for the 2020 election in only one county

> Smartmatic’s complaint takes into account not only the reputational and financial damage the company said it had suffered, but also the harm done to the United States by the claims promoted by Mr. Trump’s allies and the Murdoch-controlled networks he had long favored.

It appears that they are also trying to add the United States of America as defendants after Fox News slandered them with lies during the post-election period.

In other words, this lawsuit is going to be laughed out of court. I agree that Fox News lied a lot, maybe even more than usual and is at least partially responsible for the riots on the capitol, but these guys are nuts I don't want them representing me against a giant media empire.

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> Smartmatic accused Rupert Murdoch’s network of promoting a false narrative about the 2020 election

I can't wait to see the evidence. That'll prove that the devices are auditable. They are, right?

If anyone in government really wants to have a notable legacy, here's how: petition the USDS to create an integrated open-source election system, and get people like Matt Blaze and Harri Hursti to run a red team against it.

Enough with the foreign companies creating and operating black boxes. Enough with the smears against people who call for entirely reasonable verification while we have absolute top-tier experts regularly showing us that these systems are deeply flawed. Make elections trustworthy.

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> Smartmatic accused Rupert Murdoch’s network of promoting a false narrative about the 2020 election I can't wait to see the evidence. That'll prove that the devices are auditable. They are, right? If anyone in government really wants to have a notable legacy, here's how: petition the USDS to create an integrated open-source election system, and get people like Matt Blaze and Harri Hursti to run a red team against it…

What makes you think people will accept The One True Machine from the feds is any better?

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It's suspected that the CCP bought Dominion/Smartmatic the summer before the 2020 election for $400 million. That would make these lawsuits "lawfare", a CCP non-kinetic warfare strategy. The various holding companies all deleted the names of Chinese directors when the ownership started to be investigated shortly after that.

(The State of Texas dropped Dominion after the ownership was unclear, but 29 states kept using it.)

You'll notice the NY Times article uses the leftist keyword narrative word "debunked" about ownership questions, without, you know, naming the owners. (The other keyword narrative words and phrases you see used in a coordinated fashion across news channels are "insurrection" and "no widespread voter fraud.")

The CCP also used a front organization in the US in some of the recent banned app defense lawsuits.

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> Smartmatic accused Rupert Murdoch’s network of promoting a false narrative about the 2020 election I can't wait to see the evidence. That'll prove that the devices are auditable. They are, right? If anyone in government really wants to have a notable legacy, here's how: petition the USDS to create an integrated open-source election system, and get people like Matt Blaze and Harri Hursti to run a red team against it…

The most incredible factoid for me: These machines, the Smartmatic machines, weren't even really used in the election.

>Smartmatic technology was used only in Los Angeles County, California in the 2020 election. The system we provided to LA County does not count, tabulate or store votes.[1]

A single county in the whole of the United States used them. Verifiable or not, there's nothing this company could of done to change a national election outcome.

Someone somewhere started repeating that Smartmatic currently owned Dominion when their only connection was that they had sold off Sequoia Voting Systems——which Dominion currently owns, more than a decade ago.[2][3] Once that false factoid got in the system it was a convenient enough fact for some political factions that it got repeated everywhere.

[1] https://www.smartmatic.com/us/smartmatic-fact-checked/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartmatic#Sale_of_Sequoia_Vot... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems

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To all the naysayers, is there any other way to hold fox accountable for all the propaganda and division that they have down for that 5 years at least? And to hold rupert murdoch accountable?

And still are doing! It's disgusting how selective their reporting is.
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