A whistleblower deposition filed on September 18, 2025, alleges that Smartmatic's Venezuelan election rigging methods are transferable to Dominion voting systems used in U.S. elections, according to a summary of the testimony. The whistleblower asserted that Dominion's system architecture shares core elements with Smartmatic, including deliberately small log files, accessible source code, SAES data utility style tools, and remote "man-in-the-middle" connections. The testimony concluded that Dominion systems, reportedly built with Chinese components and designed by former Smartmatic engineers, are not secure or auditable for U.S. elections. The deposition details emerged as part of filings related to the "Fall of The Machines" whistleblower testimony. The whistleblower drew a direct connection between Smartmatic's alleged election rigging in Venezuela and vulnerabilities identified in Mesa County's Dominion forensic images. No comment has been issued by Smartmatic or Dominion regarding these allegations. These developments follow previous reports from earlier today, November 4th, 2025, indicating that the United States is investigating an alleged plot by Iran to assassinate President Donald Trump, with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro implicated. Separately, a retired CIA agent, Gary Berntsen, interviewed by Ralph Pezzullo, discussed how Hugo Chávez aimed to be a strongman in Latin America through the internationalization of electoral fraud. Venezuelan opposition leader MarĂa Corina Machado has also insisted that Maduro rigged the 2020 U.S. elections against Donald Trump, alongside other regional elections.
