The president of voting machine company Smartmatic, Roger Piñate, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on bribery and money-laundering charges in order to get election contracts in the Philippines.
Smartmatic was founded in 2000, and its voting machines have been used in elections in Venezuela and the Philippines.
According to the Miami Herald, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez chose Smartmatic to replace the country’s previous machines in 2004.
Piñate and alleged co-conspirators Jorge Miguel Vasquez and Elie Moreno have now been accused of giving former chairman of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections Juan Andres Donato Bautista $1 million in bribes to secure contracts.
