Voting Tech Company Smartmatic Indicted Over

A federal grand jury in Miami returned a superseding indictment on Thursday against voting machine company SGO Corporation Limited, identified as Smartmatic, for its alleged function in a bribery and money laundering scheme concentrating on Philippine election officers.

Smartmatic, along with three of its executives—Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez, Jorge Miguel Vasquez, and Elie Moreno—has been accused of funnelling over $1 million in bribes to Juan Andres Donato Bautista, the previous Chairman of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC).

These bribes have been allegedly meant to secure profitable contracts and favorable tax reimbursements, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

“To finance the bribes, the co-conspirators allegedly created a slush fund by over-invoicing the cost per voting machine supplied for the 2016 Philippine elections,” the release reads.

They then allegedly tried to use fraudulent contracts and sham loan agreements to conceal the illicit funds.

The bribes, according to the indictment, have been paid to get hold of and retain business from COMELEC for the benefit of SGO Corporation Limited and its associates.

Smartmatic & its guardian company indicted in Florida for bribery & money laundering tied to $100M+ Philippines election contracts (2015-18). Alleged slush fund bribed officers for voting machine offers. pic.twitter.com/44cqnIE5P4

— ALX ™ (@basedalx) October 16, 2025

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Smartmatic Accused of Bribing Top Election Official, Using Bribery As a ‘Routine Business Practice’

Federal prosecutors in Miami had beforehand accused Piñate of transferring a luxurious Caracas residence to Venezuela’s former elections chief, Tibisay Lucena Ramírez, in order to gain political favors.

Prosecutors declare they’ve textual content messages, along with pictures and witness accounts, exhibiting that Piñate transferred the home to Ramirez, who is president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council.

Ramirez’s function on the Council meant that they had authority over the nation’s controversial voting system, according to a report in the Miami Herald this past August.

All the libs who championed Smartmatic for suing Fox News are lifeless silent proper now. Investigation and initial expenses have been under Biden so they will’t actually say something lmaohttps://t.co/imnDExdqOo

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) October 16, 2025

“Though it has consistently defended the integrity of its technology and denied involvement in government manipulation,” the Herald reported, “the firm now finds itself implicated in allegations that its senior leadership engaged in bribery as a routine business practice.”

The superseding indictment leaves Smartmatic additional struggling to defend its popularity in the sector of digital voting systems.

A spokesman for Smartmatic has vehemently denied the accusations.

“This is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law,” he insisted in a assertion. “We will contest the claims, and we are confident we will prevail in court.”

Smartmatic famously filed a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News in February 2021, alleging the community knowingly broadcast false claims that the voting tech company rigged the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Fox News has argued that the claims have been newsworthy and protected by the First Amendment. The case is ongoing. Similar defamation fits against Newsmax ($40 million) and One America News (undisclosed quantity) have already been settled.

RedState will keep you up to date on this case as occasions warrant.

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