Foreign Interference

Swiss Business Contracted by National Institute for Health to Develop a Patent for Injection of Fake Voters into Election Systems (Switzerland)

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Established Fact Patent US 7,549,049 proves that some of the greatest threats to election integrity aren’t software bugs—they are intentional design features. Internet-based voting systems that lack a verifiable, physical paper trail continue to represent an unacceptable risk to secure elections. It is concerning for the following reasons: It Provides a Built-In Blueprint for Ballot […]

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COVID-19 Released from Lab in Wuhan, China Encouraged Mail-In Voting (China)

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Disputed Fact Multiple U.S. government investigations have concluded that SARS-CoV-2 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s December 2024 final report — the product of a two-year investigation — concluded that “COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China” and that “a lab-related

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CCP University Partnerships Established with US Universities (China)

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Established Fact Partnerships were formed between Wayne State University Law School and Beijing Normal University and the China University of Political Science and Law following a June 2013 trip to China by Wayne Law Interim Dean Jocelyn Benson, and a subsequent December 2013 visit by Wayne Law Associate Professor Paul Dubinsky, who served as director

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Iranian Nationals Charged for Cyber-Enabled Disinformation and Threat Campaign Designed to Influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election (Iran)

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Established Fact Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi (سید محمد حسین موسی کاظمی), aka Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazem, aka Hosein Zamani, 24, and Sajjad Kashian (سجاد کاشیان), aka Kiarash Nabavi, 27, both of Iran, obtained confidential U.S. voter information from at least one state election website; sent threatening email messages to intimidate and interfere with voters;

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DNI Ratcliffe Memorandum: CIA Analysts Suppressed Chinese Election Interference Assessments on Explicit Political Grounds – Violation of IRTPA Analytic Standard B (China)

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Established Fact On January 7, 2021, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe issued a formal memorandum documenting a significant intelligence failure: career CIA analysts had suppressed evidence of Chinese interference in the 2020 election on explicit political grounds. Ratcliffe’s memorandum stated that “China analysts were hesitant to assess Chinese actions as ‘undue influence’ or ‘interference.’

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Smartmatic Owned by Venezuelan Government (Venezuela)

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Disputed Fact The Smartmatic foreign interference nexus is documented through four independent evidentiary layers. Layer 1 – Government Origin: Smartmatic was funded by a $140 million Venezuelan government contract, developed its core election software in Venezuela, and was acquired by Venezuelan government-linked entities. A 2006 U.S. Embassy cable from Caracas assessed that Smartmatic’s “real ownership

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Smartmatic Executives Indicted for FCPA Violations and Money Laundering – Pattern of Corporate Corruption in Foreign Election Contracts (Venezuela)

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Established Fact On August 9, 2024, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida filed a superseding indictment against Smartmatic executives Roger Pinate Martinez (President/COO) and Jorge Vasquez for: (1) conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (18 U.S.C. § 371); and (2) money laundering in connection with bribes paid to Philippine government officials

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Konnech Inc. – U.S. Election Logistics Data Exfiltrated to Chinese Government Servers (China)

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Established Fact Konnech Inc., an East Lansing, Michigan-based election software company, provided poll worker management, election logistics, and scheduling software to election offices across the United States – including multiple Michigan jurisdictions. Forensic investigation revealed that Konnech transferred sensitive U.S. election data – including poll worker personally identifiable information (PII), building schematics, and operational logistics

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Spain had ability to manipulate election results (Spain)

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Reasonable Inference Scytl Election Technologies S.L.U. is a Spanish electronic voting and election‑technology company headquartered in Barcelona. A U.S. subsidiary, Scytl USA LLC, is described in an Alaska procurement decision as “a wholly‑owned subsidiary of a Spanish entity, Scytl Secure Electronic Voting, S.A. (Scytl Spain),” and is itself the parent of SOE Software in Florida,

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Dominion employees and contractors in Serbia had ability to manipulate U.S. election results (Serbia)

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Reasonable Inference Because Dominion acknowledges that some software development and maintenance is performed by its own employees in Serbia, and contemporaneous reporting describes this as ongoing, it is a reasonable inference that Serbia-based developers had the technical capability and internal permissions to interact with code and systems ultimately deployed in U.S. elections (Electronic Voting System

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