The Election Coup They Expect You to Forget: Dominion, Smartmatic, and "Trust Me" Voting
A nation that cannot audit its elections cannot claim consent. It isn't free. It is ruled.
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by Roger Stone
February 5, 2026
They tell you to move on. They tell you to accept it. They sneer that you are undermining democracy merely by demanding that democracy prove it is real.
Let us state the obvious with crystalline clarity. A republic does not endure on liturgical incantations recited by news anchors and bureaucrats. It endures on evidence, transparency, and the immutable right of the citizen to inspect the machinery by which power is conferred.
In 2020, when tens of millions of Americans watched a presidential election mutate into an un-auditable, procedurally elastic, statistically grotesque spectacle, the response from the political class was not inquiry but suppression. Not review but reprisal. Not investigation but excommunication.
One can scarcely imagine a more brazen inversion of democratic legitimacy. Those who asked the questions were declared the enemy, while those who demanded silence were celebrated as defenders of democracy. This was not merely an election. This was a confidence heist.
For decades, the American voter believed, perhaps naively, that elections were something you could see. Ballots were cast, counted, and observed. There was a tangible chain of custody and an intelligible human process.
Then came the era of the modernized election, a euphemism for opacity, privatization, and technological priestcraft. Machines. Tabulators. Scanners. Adjudication. Logs hidden behind proprietary walls. Contracts cloaked in corporate confidentiality. A counting apparatus that demands worship rather than verification.
Two names loom over this structure like a pair of ominous gargoyles. Dominion and Smartmatic. The question every sane citizen should ask is painfully simple. Who owns the count? Because he who controls the count controls the country.
The polite classes want you to believe that Venezuela is merely a troubled Latin American nation and that election interference is a cartoonish conspiracy reserved for tin foil cranks. That is a lie of convenience.
Venezuela is not merely a failed state. It is a regime. An authoritarian contraption fueled by corruption, coercion, narco finance, and the rancid stench of intelligence operations. Venezuela’s leadership learned long ago that controlling elections is not about persuasion or ideas. It is about architecture. It is about systems. It is about building a mechanism so labyrinthine, so inscrutable, and so juristically protected that even if the public suspects fraud, the public can never prove it.
Investigative materials state explicitly that Hugo Chávez directed the creation of Smartmatic’s voting system, first used in Venezuela in 2004, and then sought to export it abroad as an instrument of political control. This alone should have triggered a national security reckoning. Instead, it was met with institutional indifference.
Those same materials detail that Chávez ordered Smartmatic to gain a foothold in United States election systems through the acquisition of Sequoia Voting Systems in 2005, a maneuver that should have set off alarms in every serious national security office in Washington. What followed instead was silence.
We are told elections are sacred. We are told they are the cornerstone of legitimacy. Yet we are asked to accept, without protest, the insertion of opaque private vendors and foreign-linked digital architecture into the most critical civic function the nation possesses.
What other vital national function would we permit to be managed this way? Would we allow it in the military? In missile defense? In aviation? In nuclear command and control? Of course not. We would demand transparency, redundancy, and verification.
We certainly wouldn’t permit this:
But when it comes to elections, the political class insists the citizen has no right to examine the system closely. They call it disruptive. They call it dangerous. They call it disinformation. In other words, they call it forbidden.
Reports go further, alleging that core elements of Smartmatic’s software and methods were transferred into Dominion-based systems used in American elections. If the underlying architecture of a foreign regime’s tabulation model has even tangential influence on American vote counting, then the burden is not on the citizen to be silent. The burden is on the authorities to prove the system is clean beyond all rational doubt.
Instead, they demanded faith rather than proof. Obedience rather than evidence. That is not democracy. That is bureaucratic sacerdotalism.
Venezuela is not merely about politics. It is about organized crime embedded in the government. Investigative materials describe Cartel de los Soles, the “Cartel of the Suns”, as a network of high-ranking officials facilitating narcotics trafficking and using state power to shield criminal enterprise. Venezuela functions as a departure point in an air bridge flowing into Central America, with Honduras long serving as a transit hub for cocaine destined for the United States.
A narco regime does not simply traffic drugs. It traffics leverage. It traffics corruption. It causes destabilization. And what is more destabilizing than election manipulation?
Millions of Americans believe Donald J. Trump won in 2020 because what they witnessed defied common sense. They saw procedural anarchy. They saw rules rewritten at the eleventh hour. They saw courts hiding behind procedural barricades. They saw an establishment press corps behave like palace guards. They saw an administrative state treat transparency as treason.
Then came the commandment. You may not question. You may not audit. You may not review. You may not investigate. You must accept.
Consider what was admitted publicly on December 9, 2025, before the Georgia State Election Board. In that hearing, a Fulton County attorney acknowledged on behalf of the county that more than one hundred thirty tabulator tapes, covering approximately 315,000 early in-person votes, lacked the required signatures of poll managers and witnesses yet were illegally certified. This violated Georgia election rules requiring certification tapes printed from ballot scanners to be signed in order to verify tabulation.
State officials rushed to explain this away as a clerical or administrative error. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger characterized it as a procedural lapse at the end of the process that did not invalidate the underlying votes. The press obediently echoed the talking point. Sloppy record keeping, they said. Nothing to see here. The DOJ asked Fulton County three times to forward substantial election records from 2020. Fulton County officials ignored the request. This explains the FBI raid on the Fulton County Election Board warehouse.
But the issue is not even whether the ballots were lawfully cast. The issue is whether the system followed its own rules. Certification exists precisely because verification matters. A process that breaks its safeguards and then declares itself valid by fiat is not transparent. It is authoritarian.
Multiple recounts were cited to silence inquiry. Machine recounts. A hand recount. All invoked as talismans. Yet recounting the same ballots through the same compromised chain of custody without resolving the underlying procedural violations proves nothing except institutional arrogance.
One of the most mendacious talking points deployed after 2020 was this: “The cases were dismissed, therefore there was no fraud.” That is legal illiteracy weaponized as propaganda. Cases are dismissed for standing. For timing. For jurisdiction. For procedural posture. Dismissed does not mean examined. Dismissed does not mean disproven. Dismissed does not mean innocent. It means the courts chose not to look.
The question now is not merely what happened in 2020. The question is what America will tolerate in the future.
The solution is straightforward:
Paper ballots capable of inspection and recount by human beings.
Mandatory routine forensic audits that examine systems rather than bless outcomes.
Strict chain of custody requirements enforced with criminal penalties.
Total transparency for adjudication logs and system access.
An end to proprietary black boxes governing public elections.
An end to corporate secrecy masquerading as security.
An end to media collusion, judicial cowardice, and bureaucratic evasion.
The American people did not lose faith in elections because Donald Trump told them to doubt. They lost faith because the system behaved like a guilty man. It hid. It mocked. It censored. It punished. It demanded submission.
Dominion expects you to forget. Smartmatic expects you to forget. The media expects you to forget. The courts expect you to forget. The political class expects you to forget.
A nation that cannot audit its elections cannot claim consent.
A nation that cannot claim consent is not free. It is merely governed.
— This article first appeared at StoneColdTruth, which you should follow.
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I remember that night, when the blue line stepped up and above the red. Not a slow climb, a step. I said to my wife, "That's not possible "
They stole it. I saw it happen.