Sequoia Voting Systems

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Sequoia Voting Systems is a company based in California, and one of the largest providers of electronic voting systems in the US. Some of its main competitors are Diebold Election Systems and Election Systems & Software. Sequoia Voting Systems introduced the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in the US.

Sequoia has been involved with voting systems for more than 100 years, having invented, at the end of the 19th century, the voting lever machines that are still used today in some US jurisdictions. This firm is part of the Smartmatic family since March 8, 2005, when it was acquired. Three Venezuelan engineers, Antonio Mugica, Alfredo Anzola and Roger Piñate founded this company during the late 1990s, in order to provide comprehensive infrastructure for a successful implementation and management of device-networking applications, in both electoral and security branches.

Smartmatic products have achieved international acknowledgment from leading organizations in the world of technology, such as Microsoft's "Top-five packaged application partner of the year" in 2005 and the "Industry finest" award, from the Securities Industry Association's. One of their vertical solutions is an extremely advanced voting system called SAES.

It claims to have the only fully secure and fully auditable voting technology in the world today. Some controversy has been brought onto them as their technology was used in a recall referendum for president Hugo Chavez in 2004. Chavez won by a healthy margin and the opposition cried fraud. However, reports of the OAS, the EU and the Carter Center validated the results after multiple audits.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/2021.pdf Carter Center Report
  2. ^ http://www.sap.oas.org/MOE/2003/venezuela/inf_08_15_04_spa.pdf OAS Report
  3. ^ http://www.eueomvenezuela.org/final_report.htm 2005 Venezuelan Parliamentary Elections

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