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06:30am EDT| This Venezuela Voting Machine Company Wants To Take Over America – If It Can Get Through Fox News Share to Facebook ILLUSTRATION BY FORBES; PHOTOS BY John Lamparski/Getty Images; Smartmatic Fifteen years ago, Smartmatic was drummed out of the United States by Lou Dobbs—but now he's off the air and the voting machine company is attempting an American foothold once more. In the wake of last year’s presidential election, as Donald Trump was pushing his counterfactual narrative about vote rigging, Antonio Mugica watched Smartmatic, his little-known U.K. voting machine ...

In nine states, some jurisdictions have allowed voting via computer or app.

Security experts understand the desire of entrepreneurs and election officials to use new voting methods to reach voters who may be disenfranchised by in-person or mail-in voting, but the security risk might be too great, they say.

Leaders of the federal agency overseeing election administration have quietly weakened a key element of proposed security standards for voting systems, raising concern among voting-integrity experts that many such systems will remain vulnerable to hacking.

They say leadership of a commission tweaked a draft to remove language that stakeholders interpreted as banning wireless modems and chips from voting machines as a condition for federal certification.