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Lou Dobbs Perez article:

December 21, 2020
Some follow-up information about the Smartmatic fact-check on Fox

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020
/12/some_followup_information_about_the_smartmatic_factcheck_on_fox_comments.html

December 21, 2020
Some follow-up information about the Smartmatic fact-check on Fox
By Andrea Widburg

Fox News aired claims by Sidney Powell and others that there's a link between Dominion voting machines and Smartmatic, which provides voting software.  Because Smartmatic threatened to sue, Fox News included on Lou Dobbs's, Jeanine Pirro's, and Maria Bartiromo's shows a taped segment from Eddie Perez shooting down those claims.  This post shares publicly available information about both Eddie Perez and Smartmatic.

In the first three minutes and ten seconds, you can see the Perez appearance:

Lou Dobbs describes Perez as one of the "leading authorities on open-source software for elections" and "the global director of tech development at Open Source Technology Institute."  Dobbs explains, "We asked him for his assessment of Smartmatic and recent claims about the company."

Although there's a Fox Business chyron, the interview is unusual.  While the camera focuses on Perez, an off-camera voice asks a series of questions that are displayed on the screen, with Perez then responding.

Perez has no firsthand knowledge.  He recites information he's heard from other sources.

In January 2020, an article on congressional testimony about voting systems (including Dominion) being vulnerable to manipulation refers to a phone interview with Eddie Perez (emphasis mine):

    Eddie Perez, global director of technology research and development at the OSET Institute, said in a phone interview that while it's important to get industry on record supporting increased reporting requirements, he's skeptical whether the companies plan to follow through absent federal enforcement.

    He argued many of the other proposed changes discussed in the hearing would not meaningfully address the fundamental, systemic problems that plague the industry and inhibit better security practices, namely the consolidation of voting machine production across just three vendors and a plodding system for testing and certifying machines.

In November, however, Perez had this to say (emphasis mine):

    There have been only a "small handful" of issues that were the result of human error involving voting technology, not the software itself, said Eddie Perez, a voting technology expert at the OSET Institute, a nonpartisan election technology research and development nonprofit.

    The OSET Institute has helped monitor more than 1,000 reports of voting issues throughout the U.S. since Election Day.

    Perez said he was not aware of any systemic issue related to problems with Dominion software that would affect the tabulation of results.

If you look at Perez's Twitter page, this is his pinned tweet:

His tweets — both his own tweets and his retweets — indicate that Perez is not nonpartisan; instead, he actively supports Biden's alleged win.

About Smartmatic: Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate founded Smartmatic in 1997 in Caracas, Venezuela, the year before Hugo Chávez was elected.  It's now headquartered in London, and Mugica is the CEO.

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