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Phil Wal­dron, a cyber­se­cu­ri­ty expert and retired Army Colonel, deal­ing with intel­li­gence and infor­ma­tion war­fare for some 30 years, was a wit­ness at the hear­ing. Wal­dron said that he and his team have been research­ing vot­ing sys­tem manip­u­la­tion issues since August.

He told the com­mit­tee that the vot­ing sys­tems in Penn­syl­va­nia and else­where in the Unit­ed States were built to be manipulated.

Wal­dron: “I per­son­al­ly debriefed the son of a Cuban intel­li­gence offi­cer who had first-hand knowl­edge of Hugo Chavez’s fam­i­ly mem­bers who told him ‘not to wor­ry about the pop­u­lace threat against Maduro’s elec­tion in Venezuela.’ Quote on quote, ‘that it was guar­an­teed. Their father invest­ed the mon­ey to build the SGO vot­ing system.”