![]() Lord Malloch-Brown became chairman of the board of directors of SGO since its foundation, while Antonio Mugica remained as CEO of the new venture. In 2014, Smartmatic's CEO Antonio Mugica and British Lord Mark Malloch-Brown announced the launching of the SGO Corporation Limited, a holding company based in London whose primary asset is the election technology and voting machine manufacturer. However, in April 2008, Smartmatic still held a $2 million note from SVS Holdings, Inc., the management team which purchased Sequoia Voting Systems from Smartmatic, and at that time Sequoia's machines still used Smartmatic's intellectual property. On November 8, 2007, Smartmatic announced that it was divesting ownership of the voting machine company Sequoia Voting Systems. Jack Blaine would serve in the dual role as President of Sequoia Voting Systems and President of Sequoia's parent company, Smartmatic. On August 26, 2005, Sequoia Voting Systems announced that Mr. In March 2005, with a windfall of some $120 million from its first three contracts with Venezuela, Smartmatic then bought the much larger and more established Sequoia Voting Systems, which by 2006 had voting equipment installed in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Before the election, Smartmatic was part of a consortium that included a software company partly owned by a Venezuelan government agency. Smartmatic was a little-known firm with no experience in voting technology before it was chosen by the Venezuelan authorities to replace the country's elections machinery ahead of a contentious referendum that confirmed Hugo Chávez as president in August 2004. After receiving funds from private investors, the company then began to expand. Smartmatic then established its headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida with seven employees. Smartmatic was officially incorporated on 11 April 2000 in Delaware by Alfredo José Anzola. Following the 2000 United States presidential election and its hanging chad controversy in Florida, the group proposed to dedicate a system toward electoral functions. In 1997, three engineers, Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Piñate, began collaborating in a group while working at Panagroup Corp. 4.2.2 2020 presidential election and defamation lawsuits.4.1.4 Alleged obfuscation of Venezuelan ownership.4.1.3 Alleged affiliations with government.2.9.3 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election.2.9.2 2012 Venezuelan presidential election.2.8.1 2016 Utah republican presidential primaries.2.6.4 2016 Philippine presidential election.2.6.3 2013 Philippine midterm elections.2.6.1 2008 Philippine regional elections.Smartmatic gained additional attention after it launched defamation lawsuits against some of its accusers, most notably those against Fox News, Mike Lindell, Newsmax, Sidney Powell, and Rudy Giuliani. During and after the 2020 United States presidential election and subsequent attempts to overturn the results, Smartmatic was the subject of numerous false accusations of fraud and disproven conspiracy theories by Donald Trump and his supporters. Smartmatic has faced controversy for some of its actions in the Philippines. ![]() The company grew by acquiring the much larger Sequoia Voting Systems in 2006 (though its stake in Sequoia was later divested), and today runs voting systems in many countries across the world. Smartmatic was founded in 1997 by Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate, though gained attention quickly after it was chosen to replace voting machines in Venezuela ahead of Hugo Chávez's 2004 reelection. The company also produces smart cities solutions (including public safety and public transportation), identity management systems for civil registration and authentication products for government applications. or Smartmatic International) or Smartmatic SGO Group is a multinational company that builds and implements electronic voting systems. Smartmatic (also referred as Smartmatic Corp. ![]()
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