Washington — A Rhode Island software company commissioned by Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign to investigate claims of election fraud was subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year, according to the firm's founder.
Ken Block — a software engineer and politician who once ran for governor of the state — confirmed that his company, Simpatico Software Systems, was hired by the Trump campaign and found over a dozen claims of election fraud presented to him by the campaign were false.
The existence of the subpoena and Block's firm's election findings were first reported by The Washington Post.
The data were shared with the special counsel, who is investigating the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, Block said.
Block says he founded Simpatico, a software engineering firm, 20 years ago. It designs computers for big corporations across the country and has also been hired to conduct public research on registered voter lists to determine if deceased people are still listed on voter rolls and whether ballots were cast in their names.
The day after the 2020 presidential election, a Trump campaign lawyer hired Simpatico to both "attempt to validate some pretty wild claims of voter fraud" and analyze voter data from across the country collected by the Republican National Committee, Block said.
He declined to provide any further details about his work with the Trump campaign or...
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