Established Fact
Heider Garcia, currently Vice President of Customer Success at Hart InterCivic — one of the three vendors whose equipment is used to count ballots for the majority of American voters — spent over a decade at Smartmatic (2003–2016), where he held progressively senior roles including Native Solutions Deployment Coordinator, Solution Manager, and lead developer for the SAES voting device and electoral system. In these capacities, Garcia participated in the deployment and international certification of Smartmatic election technology in Venezuela, the United States, and the Philippines, served as Smartmatic’s Asia-Pacific responsible, and was a Smartmatic shareholder. He provided technical support during the 2010 Philippines election on behalf of Smartmatic.
Garcia subsequently held U.S. election administration positions in Placer County, California (Elections Manager, 2016–2018), Tarrant County, Texas (Elections Administrator, 2018–2023), and briefly served as a Senior Subject Matter Expert at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (July–October 2023) before becoming Elections Administrator for Dallas County, Texas (2023–2025). He resigned from Dallas County to assume his current role at Hart InterCivic.
This career trajectory places an individual with deep institutional knowledge of Smartmatic’s proprietary election technology — and a former financial stakeholder in the company — in a senior leadership position at a competing U.S. voting system manufacturer that is certified by the EAC and deployed across American jurisdictions. Whether Garcia’s prior Smartmatic shareholding, his technical access to foreign election deployments, or his subsequent service at the EAC were disclosed to Hart InterCivic’s government clients or factored into any supply chain or personnel security review has not been publicly established.