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“Smartmatic and Dominion systems ... were built to do this very thing, for changing the results of elections.”
Sidney Powell Lawyer. an interview with Mark Levin. Claim dated 16 Nov 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire

What PolitiFact found

Dominion and Smartmatic make electronic voting systems. Neither was created for “changing the results of elections.”

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Sidney Powell (Lawyer) made this claim around 16 November 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 November 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.

Sidney Powell has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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