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Sidney Powell, Lawyer supporting the Trump Campaign

“Smartmatic voting systems "were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chávez" and used to commit fraud in the 2020 U.S. election.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: 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.