Smartmatic Suing Fox News, Newsmax, One America News.

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12-14-2020

Smartmatic, a technology company with a self-described mission of “building the most secure, accessible and easy-to-use election technologies ever designed, to safeguard the election process from start to finish,” has threatened to take legal action against Fox News, Newsmax and One America News.

The company, which finds itself baselessly lumped in with Dominion Voting Systems as a conspirator in ensuring President Donald Trump’s election loss, is demanding retractions and threatening defamation lawsuits as it hemorrhages business amid an onslaught of attacks.

Attorney Sidney Powell has repeatedly gone after Smartmatic, linking it to Hugo Chavez and would-be “communist” election-rigging for the rest of time.

“The Dominion Voting Systems, the Smartmatic technology software, and the software that goes
in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come out,” Powell asserted in November.

According to an Associated Press fact-check of the claims, “Dominion does not have any ties to Venezuela, nor does it have a partnership with Smartmatic” and Smartmatic is an “international company incorporated in Florida by Venezuelan founders.”

“The company states on its website that it’s not associated with governments or political parties of any country,” the AP notes.

And according to Reuters, Smartmatic has “no current relationship with Dominion and had almost nothing to do with November’s election.”

“Smartmatic helped tally votes only in left-leaning Los Angeles County, where Biden’s victory was never in doubt,” the report said.

But the public statements of Powell, Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies caused damage to Smartmatic that has amounted to an “existential” threat against the company, Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica told Reuters.

“I don’t think there is one customer in the world that has not come back to us to tell us either that this is a problem and this could endanger our future relationship–for existing customers—or that this could endanger a potential new contract,” Mugica said last week.

On Monday, the company announced it was taking steps to defend its reputation and existence.

“Smartmatic announced today that it is issuing legal notices and retraction demand letters to Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network for publishing false and defamatory statements.

The demand letters identify dozens of factually inaccurate statements made by each of the organizations as part of a ‘disinformation campaign’ to injure Smartmatic and discredit the 2020 U.S. election,” a press release began.

The company said that Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN could have “easily discovered the falsity of the statements and implications made about Smartmatic by investigating their statements before publishing them to millions of viewers and readers,” but did not. Smartmatic pointed to fact-checkers like the ones referenced above.

“Smartmatic had nothing to do with the ‘controversies’ that certain public and private figures have alleged regarding the 2020 U.S. election. Multiple fact-checkers have consistently debunked these false statements with stunning consistency and regularity,” the press release continued.

CEO Antonio Mugica said the president’s allies simply have “no evidence to support their attacks
on Smartmatic because there is no evidence.”

“This campaign was designed to defame Smartmatic and undermine legitimately conducted elections,” he said. “Our efforts are more than just about Smartmatic or any other company. This campaign is an attack on election systems and election workers in an effort to depress confidence in future elections and potentially counter the will of the voters, not just here, but in democracies around the world.”

Smartmatic said that it reserved the right to sue for defamation and disparagement.

In November, Rudy Giuliani went on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo and also linked Smartmatic to both Hugo Chavez and Dominion.

“And, the software that they use is done by a company called Smartmatic, a company that was founded by [Hugo] Chávez and by Chávez’s two allies, who still own it. And it’s been used to cheat in elections in South America.
It was banned by the United States several about a decade ago. It’s come back now as a subcontractor to other companies,” Giuliani said.
“It sort of hides in the weeds. But Dominion sends everything to Smartmatic. Can you believe it? Our votes are sent overseas. They are sent to someplace else, some other country. Why do they leave our country?”

Law&Crime reached out to a Fox News representative for comment on the Smartmatic legal threat.

Mediaite obtained a copy of Smartmatic’s letter to Fox News, which you can read here.

https://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Legal-Notice-and-Retraction-Demand-from-Smartmatic-USA-Corp-to-Fox-News.pdf

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A voting technology company at the center of election conspiracy theories demanded a retraction from Fox News, accusing them of 'a concerted disinformation campaign'
Jacob Shamsian
Mon, December 14, 2020, 10:35 AM MST

Smartmatic, a voting technology company, sent cease and desist letters on Monday to Fox News, One America News, and Newsmax, demanding retractions.

The company has become the subject of conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, and accused the media organizations of spreading them.

In a letter to Fox News obtained by Insider, Smartmatic says Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Jesse Watters, and Maria Bartiromo have been instrumental in spreading the conspiracy theories, which first gained widespread currency with lawsuits from ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell.

The election software company Smartmatic is demanding retractions from right-wing media outlets, accusing them of spreading conspiracy theories about its role in the 2020 elections.

In a letter obtained by Insider, Smartmatic accused Fox News of engaging in "a concerted disinformation campaign against Smartmatic" by "continually and repeatedly published demonstrably false information and defamatory statements."

"Fox News told its millions of viewers and readers that Smartmatic was founded by Hugo Chávez, that its software was designed to fix elections, and that Smartmatic conspired with others to defraud the American people and fix the 2020 U.S. election by changing, inflating, and deleting votes," Smartmatic's letter, addressed to Fox News executive vice president and general counsel Lily Fu Claffee, reads.

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Smartmatic Suing Fox News, Newsmax, One America News. 1Qk4U7p

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Typical 'Murican bullshit...

...privitize our elections by turning them over to machines that give no receipts, have no accountability, and whose code is "proprietary" so they can't even be subjected to the most basic non-partisan oversite. Machines that are proven susceptible to tampering and whose tabulations have demonstrated earmarks of "fractional" voting and other anomalies.

And then we call the resulting elections "free and transparent".

How very Orwellian of us.

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We need to fuk the electoral college junk-
and go popular vote..
By the people for the people vote..
No electoral college crap needed-
its soon 2021, sigh

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Temple wrote:: We need to fuk the electoral college junk-
and go popular vote..
By the people for the people vote..
No electoral college crap needed-
its soon 2021, sigh

Dude, we can't even get rid of that stupid "daylight savings time" crap or formally adopt the metric system; what makes you think we'll ever get rid of the electoral college? This is 'Murica, where we do the same ol' shit the same ol' way because by gawd it was good enuff for granpappy so it's good enough for us no matter how ineffective, nonsensical, unnecessary, or inherently corrupt it is.

<shaking head and muttering>

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Vitriol wrote:

Temple wrote:: We need to fuk the electoral college junk-
and go popular vote..
By the people for the people vote..
No electoral college crap needed-
its soon 2021, sigh

Dude, we can't even get rid of that stupid "daylight savings time" crap or formally adopt the metric system; what makes you think we'll ever get rid of the electoral college? This is 'Murica, where we do the same ol' shit the same ol' way because by gawd it was good enuff for granpappy so it's good enough for us no matter how ineffective, nonsensical, unnecessary, or inherently corrupt it is.

<shaking head and muttering>

Quite right--
But- someday, someday..
Sooner than later when we get rid of
everyone over 55 in congress and president..
It's the older than dirt senators
that are holding back change.
All know elderly people are extremely hard to
move forward...They don't move out of the 50's ..

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12-19-2020

Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems suing; FOX-Newsmax- OAN

Right wingers attacking voting systems and software
may soon be eating their own words
in court.

There's an old country saying that may soon take on new meaning
for some of the right-wing media and celebrities who have been making
wild accusations about voting machines and software
in the wake of Donald Trump's defeat.
It goes like this:

"Hunting ain't no fun when the rabbit got the gun."

As the New York Times reported Sunday night,
the digital security system Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems
may soon be turning
the tables on some of the people who have brashly tormented
them since the election.
In particular, Antonio Mugica, founder of Smartmatic,
has some wingnut TV outlets
in his legal sights.

"In an era of brazen political lies, Mr. Mugica has emerged as
an unlikely figure with the power to
put the genie back in the bottle."

"Last week, his lawyer sent scathing letters to the
Fox News Channel, Newsmax and OAN demanding that they immediately,
forcefully clear his company's name —
and that they retain documents for a planned defamation lawsuit.
He has, legal experts say,
an unusually strong case.

And his new lawyer is J. Erik Connolly, who not coincidentally won the
largest settlement in the history of American media defamation in 2017,
at least $177 million, for a beef producer whose
"lean finely textured beef" was described by
ABC News as "pink slime."

Well, that can't be so good if you've been slinging lies for fun and profit
at a company whose software wasn't even used outside of
Los Angeles County in the 2020 election.
What's more, Dominion is right there with Smartmatic in
hiring high-powered legal talent
to get a little justice from the TV networks.

"Dominion Voting Systems has hired another
high-powered libel lawyer, Tom Clare, who
has threatened legal action against Ms. Powell
and the Trump campaign.
Mr. Clare said in an emailed statement that
"we are moving forward on the basis that she
will not retract those false statements and that it will be necessary
for Dominion to take aggressive
legal action, both against Ms. Powell and the
many others who have enabled and amplified her campaign of defamation
by spreading damaging falsehoods about Dominion."

Citing a top legal expert, the Times suggested
OAN and Newsmax in particular could have their business
destroyed if they got sued.

"The letters written by lawyers for Smartmatic and Dominion are
"extremely powerful," said Floyd Abrams, one of the country's
most prominent
First Amendment lawyers, in an email to Times.

"The repeated accusations against both companies are plainly defamatory
and surely have done enormous reputational and financial harm to both."

Earlier reporting last week at Fortune.com also suggested that Smartmatic
is threatening to go after Fox News and its smaller competitors.

"For Smartmatic, the claims about its machines—which appear to have
come primarily from the networks' guests rather than the hosts—
are not just frustrating examples of disinformation but
a major business risk as well,"
Fortune reported. "According to its CEO, the company has lost contracts
in other countries because of the controversy."

As a result, Smartmatic issued a statement on Monday warning it will
sue Fox News, as well
as smaller media outlets NewsMax and OANN,
for defamation if they don't retract "dozens"
of inaccurate statements.

"According to long-time media lawyer Ed Klaris, companies are subject
to the same rules of defamation as individuals—including the need
to clear the high bar of "actual malice" in the
event they are so-called public figures.

Rudy and the Kraken slayer lady might not be sleeping too comfortably
on their My Pillows for
a while.
"The distinction between a media outlet's positions and those of its
guests may not always matter in court, however," according to Klaris.
He notes that a victim of defamation is entitled to sue both the person
who made the statement as well as the outlet on which the statement was aired.

Klaris also noted that, if Smartmatic has indeed lost out on contracts because of
false claims about its voting machines, it will be in a strong position
to seek damages.
"Absolutely, they're suffering harm. That's what
libel law is meant to fix. It's meant to fix reputational harm," said Klaris.

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Holyshite!
MewsMax just licked its shit off trumps ass..
They is scared, real scared..
This is what happens when you’re about
to get sued for your entire network.
Newsmax just aired this note to "clarify"
its coverage of Smartmatic and Dominion.
BWAA!
Of course, it can easily be proven differently.
watch;

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