Smartmatic charges that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped "steal" the US presidential election. On January 25, a rival election-technology company — Dominion Voting Systems, which was also ensnared in Trump's baseless effort to overturn the election — sued Giuliani and Powell for US$1.3b. Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, lawyers for US President Donald Trump, have been sued for spreading false claims that Smartmatic helped "steal" the US presidential election. Death threats, including against an executive's 14-year-old son, poured in as internet searches for the company surged, Smartmatic claims. Gutterman said that any after-the-fact correction can be a mitigating factor but doesn't get of the defendants entirely off the hook if they are found to have previously been propagating false claims.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 05, 2021 00:42 UTC