The Washington Post offers this report, which begins: “A federal investigation into possible ties between a U.S. maker of electronic voting machines and the Venezuelan government has ended after the company’s Venezuelan owners announced they will sell it . Smartmatic Corp. announced yesterday that it agreed to sell its subsidiary, Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., the third-largest supplier of voting equipment in the United States. Smartmatic, which was owned through a series of trusts by Venezuelan entrepreneurs, acquired the firm last year from a British company.”