FORMER CBS chief foreign affairs correspondent and Afghanistan war reporter, Lara Logan, has revealed one of the most alarming underworld activities that mainstream media refuses to investigate – the existence of a global election rigging network.
The official mainstream media line is that election rigging is only something that exists in a few banana republics, and that they “proved” election rigging claims by President Trump are false.
On October 24th, Logan hosted a live studio audience at the America First Warehouse in Long Island, New York, for a special investigation into what she described as “one of the most consequential issues facing America ahead of the 2026 midterms”.
Logan and an extraordinary panel of intelligence experts, investigators, and election integrity advocates examined allegations of election manipulation, vulnerabilities in the voting infrastructure and the national security implications.
The panel featured Gary Berntsen, Ralph Pezzullo, Martin Rodil, Mark Cook, Dr Andrew Paquette, Ed Solomon, Joe Hoft, and Tina Peters.
Pezzullo, a New York Times best-selling author of the book Stolen Elections, says election rigging was first detected in the Gore-Bush presidential election which prompted the US government to buy automated voting machines and move from paper records to digital records – that experts warned could be manipulated.
Pezullo claims that in the late 90s, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro told Venezuela’s socialist leader Hugo Chavez that they should hire computer experts to develop a program that would rig a coming referendum in his (Chavez’s) favour.
The referendum was run and won on Olivetti lottery machines bought from Italy and set up as new voting technology.
Castro and Chavez were then able to convince a number of other Latin Ameerican leaders to buy the equipment and a number of elections brought “surprising wins” for leftist leaders such as Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Eva Morales in Bolivia and the Kirchners in Argentina.
It was at this stage, says Pezullo, that the Chinese came in and decided it would be a great idea to try in the United States, so they financed an election machine company in Boca Raton, Florida, called Smartmatic, which in turn bought another election company Sequioa and began looking for contracts across the US.
One of the first elections they ran was a Democratic Party presidential primary in Cook County, Illinois (Chicago) in which Senator Barack Obama defeated New York Senator Hillary Clinton.
“Chavez famously told his bodyguard ,,, ‘watch me, I’m going to elect the first African-American president of the United States’, and they succeeded,” said Pezullo.
“And Smartmatic, with Sequoia, started applying to run elections in states all over the country, including California. When they got to California in 2007, California had a process where they hired outside experts from MIT and Berkely to look at the software and determine whether it was legitimate and safe.
“Those engineers came back and said this looks like software that was designed to steal an election rather preserve elections,”
Pezullo says this story is essentially how Smartmatic software, that is in practically every election machine that is used in the United States, and all different counties, has been able to subvert the US election process.
Pezzulo worked with government whistleblowers Gary Berntsen and Martin Rodil, who had amaassed their own evidence of election fraud coincidentally while investigating drug cartel money flows for the US DEA and other agencies.
Logan pointed out that the US Treasury even launched its own investigation of Smartmatic, which responded by carrying out fake company sales to bury liability and ownership.
Tina Peters was the former County Clerk and Recorder for Mesa County, Colorado, who was charged by state officials for essentially doing her job and covertly investigating suspected election machine irregularities.
She was convicted by a jury in late 2024 on seven of ten criminal charges around election machine security, resulting in a nine-year prison sentence, later commuted by the state governor and pardoned by President Trump.
Peters allegedly “stole or misused an employee security badge” to allow an unauthorized outsider to take photos of the Dominion Voting Systems secure system and make a complete copy of the election machine’s hard drive.
“These internal passwords, secure data files, and system schematics were later published online by prominent election-denying groups,” Gemini AI tells us.
AI also regurgitated the hardline establishment media line that Peters “was motivated by false conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election had been rigged.”
Note the politically-loaded language of media: “Election-denying groups” (akin to “climate deniers”?) and “false conspiracy theories”.
After the 2020 elections, “independent fact checkers”, government auditors and others went on the offensive to investigate the multiple claims of irregularities and came up with a unanimous result that vote rigging – apart from a few minor errors and odd cases of illegal votes – the system was a clean as a whistle.
The Associated Press investigation for instance, reviewed six battleground states contested by Trump and “found fewer than 475 potential instances of voter fraud out of more than 25 million votes cast—representing a microscopic fraction of a percent.”
It was all too obvious a result after the media constantly repeated the line “Trump’s false claims of election fraud” even before the investigations, which are themselves highly questionable.
Logan, despite her high-level mainstream media background, is far from convinced by her colleagues’ insistence that election fraud and rigging is something that barely exists in countries like the US.
