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Roger Piñate, the Venezuelan-American founder of the voting-machine company Smartmatic, surrendered to authorities and faced charges Monday in Miami federal court of committing foreign corruption and money laundering to secure elections contracts in the Philippines. Piñate, 49, president of Boca Raton-based Smartmartic, was charged along with Jorge Miguel Vasquez, 62, of Davie, the company’s former vice president of hardware development, who also surrendered on Monday.

Good morning, everyone and welcome to Saturday’s Morning Open Thread. Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful dialogue in an open forum. There are multiple types of voting machines and jurisdictions (even within state systems) often use different machines. If you are interested in your particular voting place, YouTube has an assortment of videos on various machines. Where you vote, as most of you already know, changes based on...

Three executives from the electronic voting machine company Smartmatic, including one former employee and the company’s current president, have been charged in a bribery and money laundering scheme. “A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment today charging three executives of an election voting machine and service provider company and a former Chairman of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) of the Republic of the Philippines for their roles in an alleged bribery and money laundering scheme to retain and obtain business related to the 2016...

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted voting-machine company Smartmatic's president and founder Roger Piñate on bribery and money-laundering charges in order to get election contracts in the Philippines.

Smartmatic's voting machines have been used in Venezuelan and Philippine presidential elections, and was founded in 2000, but didn't take off until the Venezuelan election in 2004, when Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez chose the company to replace the country's previous machines, according to the Miami Herald.

Overseas troops could be using deployable electronic voting machines to cast their ballots as soon as next year, the president of a nonprofit election technology firm said this week. “We now have a fully functional prototype and are a few weeks away from wrapping up our report to [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency],” Ben Adida, executive director of VotingWorks and the technical lead on the project, told Stars and Stripes by email Monday. VotingWorks unveiled an early-stage version of its deployable voting machine in February at the National Association...

San Luis Obispo County will use Dominion Voting Systems machines to tabulate its elections for at least the next five years — despite one supervisor’s continued efforts to stop it. On Tuesday, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a contract with Dominion Voting Systems that would supply the county with new voting machines and technology. According to County Clerk-Recorder Elaina Cano, this is the first time the county has gotten new voting machines since its first contract with Dominion in 2018. The contract is set...

MADISON – A rural Wisconsin community's decision to eliminate electronic voting machines has attracted the attention of federal investigators who are questioning how voters with disabilities cast ballots in the town of fewer than 1,000 people. The vote by a small board overseeing the Town of Thornapple in Rusk County, population 711, to rely solely on hand counting paper ballots took place last year and caught the eye of state and federal officials after the April presidential primary election when advocates for voters with disabilities rang alarm bells. The decision...