
The Venezuelan-American founder of voting machine company Smartmatic has been indicted by a grand jury on charges relating to an alleged scheme involving the election technology. The grand jury’s Thursday decision in the Southern District of Florida means executive Roger Pinate, 49, is now charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of international laundering of monetary instruments. Pinate is a co-founder and president of Smartmatic. Alleged co-conspirators 62-year-old Jorge Vasquez, 44-year-old Elie Moreno and the former Philippines’ Commission on Elections Chairman Juan Andres Donato Bautista each face the...