Documents posted by the White House on Thursday night featured an analysis by the C.I.A. last month that assessed intelligence collected over nearly two decades about the Venezuelan government’s ability to rig elections through voting machine technology. It found that officials there had “some capability in manipulating electronic voting systems” to influence the outcomes of races in Venezuela. But it cautioned that there was no definitive evidence that such technology — chiefly created by a company called Smartmatic — had been used to commit “large-scale electronic fraud” in Venezuela, and determined that the Venezuelan government did not have the ability to rig elections outside its own country. Show more Show less
Trump: Maduro manipulated Venezuela's electronic voting system in 2020
Documents posted by the White House on Thursday night featured an analysis by the C.I.A. last month that assessed intelligence collected over nearly two decades about the Venezuelan government’s ability to rig elections through voting machine technology. It found that officials there had “some capability in manipulating electronic voting systems” to influence the outcomes of races in Venezuela. But it cautioned that there was no definitive evidence that such technology — chiefly created by a company called Smartmatic — had been used to commit “large-scale electronic fraud” in Venezuela, and determined that the Venezuelan government did not have the ability to rig elections outside its own country.
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