The Kraken Released: Smartmatic Designed to Hide Manipulation of Votes

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In a much anticipated court filing, attorney Sidney Powell, lays out allegations of massive and vast election fraud that took place throughout the United States using easily manipulated voter software.

In a series titled “The Kraken Released,” (Named after Powell’s assertion that through this lawsuit she would be “releasing the Kraken,” a mythical creature of immense size and consequence) ITN is analyzing the court filing page by page and detailing the allegations and the relief sought by Powell.

Powell details the words of a whistleblower, who says Smartmatic software was developed in Venezuela at the behest of dictator Hugo Chavez to make sure he “won” every election he participated in.

The whistleblower says Smartmatic was designed to hide the manipulation it conducts in switching votes from one candidate to another. Smartmatic was used throughout the U.S. in the Nov. 3 election.

From pages 5-6 of the filing:

A core requirement of the Smartmatic software design was the software’s ability to hide its manipulation of votes from any audit. As the whistleblower explains:

Chavez was most insistent that Smartmatic design the system in a way that the system could change the vote of each voter without being detected. He wanted the software itself to function in such a manner that if the voter were to place their thumb print or fingerprint on a scanner, then the thumbprint would be tied to a record of the voter’s name and identity as having voted, but that voter would not be tracked to the changed vote. He made it clear that the system would have to be setup to not leave any evidence of the changed vote for a specific voter and that there would be no evidence to show and nothing to contradict that the name or the fingerprint or thumb print was going with a changed vote. Smartmatic agreed to create such a system and produced the software and hardware that accomplished that result for President Chavez. (See Id., see also Exh. 3, Aff. Cardozo, attached hereto)).

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