I was just reading Barbados Free Press’ article, Barbados Company In Middle Of Philippine Election Intrigue – Fears Of Uprising and Revolution Over Automated Balloting Problems – Memories of VECO Corporation’s Barbados Contracts, which was based on this article:
Tribune Daily, 05/19/2009 – Comelec faces failed bidding
Another report stated that Smartmatic, which participated in the ARMM election automation, has reportredly variously presented itself to be an American company, a Dutch company, a Curacao company and a Venezuelan company. This time they are said to be Barbados company, Pete Troilo, Director, Business Intelligence Pacific Strategies and Assessments said in a statement to the Tribune.
I did an online search for “Smartmatic” on the Barbados Corporate Registry, CAIPO, and this is what I found:
| name (*) | number | datereg/inc | category | |
| SMARTMATIC SERVICES CORPORATION | 31299 | 2008-11-07 | Company | View |
| SMARTMATIC INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION | 24285 | 2004-09-29 | Company | View |
| SMARTMATIC SERVICES CORPORATION | 25239 | 2005-04-27 | Company | View |
| SMARTMATIC ELECTIONS SERVICES CORPORATION | 26020 | 2005-10-17 | Company | View |
| SMARTMATIC INTERNATIONAL VOTING CORPORATION | 27598 | 2006-08-29 | Company | View |
| SMARTMATIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION | 28662 | 2007-05-03 | Company | View |
| SMARTMATIC DEPLOYMENT CORPORATION | 30338 | 2008-04-22 | Company | View |
Where are the corporate offices of these companies? Who owns them?
3 responses so far ↓
goodbye_garci // July 30, 2009 at 1:09 am
Cesar Flores, Smartmatic’s spokesman admitted in an article in the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (http://www.pcij.org/stories/2009/election-automation2.html) that Smartmatic accessed the transmission servers during a regional election in the Philippines in 2008 to unblock election results. Was this the same method used by Smartmatic in the February 2009 referendum in Venezuela where the Yes votes won lifting the term limits of President Hugo Chavez?
Keltruth Corp. // July 30, 2009 at 10:24 pm
goodbye_garci,
Thanks. Wonder if it be used in the local Caribbean elections?
Pablo Rustas // August 25, 2009 at 7:40 am
Goodbye, Grci. He will be replaced by an electronic Garci, able to fix the 2010 election results already before the firstvoter cats his vote and without to care whay is voted. Venezuela is greeting, and is controlling Smartmatic, too. Has there not been a sidetrip of GMA to a caribbean island, hosting one of the many Main Offices of Smartmatic?