
Two executives at Smartmatic, a voting machine company, were indicted in Florida on Thursday for allegedly bribing officials in the Philippines to secure contracts ahead of the 2016 election there, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Florida announced. Smartmatic President Roger Piñate and another executive, Jorge Miguel Vasquez, were indicted on charges that they laundered money across the world — including through Florida — to pay an estimated $1 million in bribes a Philippine official in order to secure contracts surrounding their 2016 election. The employees have...