The federal government is alleging that a technology firm overbilled Los Angeles County for voting machines to create a slush fund to bribe elected officials.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Smartmatic, a U.K.-based voting system company, allegedly had bribery embedded as part of its business model, according to prosecutors in a Florida federal corruption case against company co-founder Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez and two other company officials.

Dean Logan, the county’s top voting official, has acknowledged regularly meeting with Piñate, a Boca Raton resident who was charged last year with bribery and money laundering in the Philippines.

That’s where executives are charged with inflating the price of voting machines and using the surplus money to bribe a top election

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