Smartmatic — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

Smartmatic is an election-technology company that holds two IEEE MA-L blocks, both registered to Boca Raton, Florida addresses under slightly different corporate names: 00:06:C2 to "Smartmatic Corporation" at 6400 Congress Ave., Suite 1300, and 28:72:C5 to "Smartmatic Corp" at 1001 Broken Sound Pkwy NW, Suite D. The two assignments at different suite addresses reflect the company's registration history at the same Boca Raton locus. Smartmatic is a substantive, identifiable operator rather than a bare shell registrant: it is registered with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission as a certified voting-system manufacturer, carries a Florida Division of Corporations record, and ships a documented hardware catalog. Its products are electronic voting and election devices — touchscreen voting machines (SAES-4000 series), ballot marking devices (bSmart BMD 155), voter identification units (VIA-100), and voting pads (VP-1500) — the kinds of polling-place hardware these OUI prefixes would appear on, typically on secure internal or polling-place networks rather than the open internet. A caveat for any MAC-based classification work: IEEE publishes no assignment date for either block, so no registration date should be attributed to these prefixes; third-party "date registered" values (e.g. maclookup.app's "04 June 2001" for 00:06:C2) are database-scrape artifacts, not IEEE facts. Because election technology is politically sensitive, note that no CVEs or abuse-list findings specific to Smartmatic hardware surfaced in this pass — this is a "no adverse finding," not a security clearance.

IEEE assignment

2 prefixes → 00:06:C2 ("Smartmatic Corporation") and 28:72:C5 ("Smartmatic Corp"), both Boca Raton, FL, US [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (:35939)

Registry / block size

both MA-L (24-bit OUI); no MA-M or MA-S (36-bit) assignments found [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry (0 matches in the latter two)

HQ / country

Boca Raton, FL, US per both registry addresses (6400 Congress Ave., Suite 1300 for 00:06:C2; 1001 Broken Sound Pkwy NW, Suite D for 28:72:C5). Corporate HQ later moved to London (2012), with offices in multiple countries. [Confirmed registry addresses; Likely on HQ relocation] — IEEE MA-L; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartmatic

Company status

active [Confirmed] — https://www.smartmatic.com/us/voting/hardware/

Device types

electronic voting machines, ballot marking devices, voter identification units, voting pads and related polling-place hardware [Confirmed] — https://www.smartmatic.com/us/voting/hardware/

Notable products

SAES-4000 series voting machine, bSmart BMD 155 ballot marking device, VIA-100 voter identification unit, VP-1500 voting pad, VIU-800 [Confirmed] — https://www.smartmatic.com/us/voting/hardware/

Verified sample prefixes

00:06:C2 (Smartmatic Corporation), 28:72:C5 (Smartmatic Corp) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

Company substance

registered with U.S. Election Assistance Commission as "Smartmatic USA Corporation" (certified voting-system manufacturer); Florida Division of Corporations record; Wikipedia corporate history [Confirmed] — https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/registered-manufacturers/smartmatic-usa-corporation ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartmatic

No IEEE date

IEEE public OUI data (the IEEE MA-L registry columns: Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address) publishes NO assignment/registration date. maclookup.app's "registered 04 June 2001, last updated 17 November 2015" for 00:06:C2 is a third-party database artifact, not an IEEE fact — do NOT record it as a registration date.

[Confirmed] — https://maclookup.app/macaddress/0006C2

IANA reference

not applicable — MA-L is an IEEE Registration Authority function, not an IANA registry; no IANA/RFC reference exists or should be fabricated. [Confirmed] — https://standards.ieee.org/products-programs/regauth/

Security / abuse

no CVEs, malware, or abuse-list findings specific to Smartmatic hardware or its MAC ranges found in this pass; a voting-machine CVE search surfaced only a competitor's product (Dominion ImageCast X, CISA ICSA-22-154-01), which does not apply here. Treat as no-adverse-finding, not a clean bill of health.

[Likely] — https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-22-154-01 ; https://www.smartmatic.com/cybersecurity/

Analyst note

A Smartmatic OUI on a globally-administered address identifies genuine Smartmatic election hardware, most likely on a secure internal/polling-place network; the two blocks are registered under two spellings of the company name, so vendor-name matching should treat "Smartmatic Corporation" and "Smartmatic Corp" as the same entity.