“Smartmatic voting systems "were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chávez" and used to commit fraud in the 2020 U.S. election.”
What FactCheck.org found
A conspiracy theory of widespread fraud claims an election technology company called Smartmatic switched votes in the 2020 election. But Smartmatic provided ballot-marking machines to only one US county in the election.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Sidney Powell (Lawyer supporting the Trump Campaign) made this claim around 19 November 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 November 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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.
This check was done by FactCheck.org, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.