WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conspiracy theories about how voting machines were used to stop the re-election of Donald Trump have not just sapped Americans' faith in the democratic process - they also pose an existential threat to the market for electronic voting systems worldwide, an executive with a leading company said.
Antonio Mugica, chief executive of Florida-based Smartmatic, said the baseless claims circulated by Trump and his allies about Smartmatic and one of its competitors, Dominion Voting Systems, were having a knock-on effect outside the United States, with officials in other countries either reluctant to sign deals or warning that they were reassessing their contracts.