Voting tech company says it's being vindictively prosecuted by Trump DOJ
Voting tech company says it's being vindictively prosecuted by Trump DOJ
Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAYTue, March 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM UTC
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Smartmatic, a voting technology company that supplied infrastructure used in the 2020 election, said in a new court filing that it is being unlawfully targeted by the Justice Department under President Donald Trump for undermining the president's false attacks on the integrity of the 2020 election.
Smartmatic's parent company was charged in a Florida federal court in October with conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing a Philippine government official to get business, and with conspiring to launder money. Those charges against the company were added to a case initially brought against some of its former executives in 2024, during President Joe Biden's term.
That timeline is a key part of the argument Smartmatic laid out in its March 10 filing, which is asking the court to dismiss the charges as amounting to an unlawfully vindictive against the company.
"President Trump has openly waged a campaign of retribution against his perceived enemies—chief among them those who undermine his mantra that the 2020 election was rigged—and demanded the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) take up the sword," the company said in its filing.
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"(T)he only consequential changes in this case since 2024 were the President, his DOJ, and their well-documented crusade to unconstitutionally target their perceived political enemies, like Smartmatic," the company added.
The Justice Department told USA TODAY it will "rest on its filings" in the case. It has not yet responded in court.
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