The Biden-Harris transition posted agency-review rosters. A November 18, 2020, Wayback capture of the official list puts Peter Neffenger on the Department of Homeland Security team: most recent employment “Self-employed,” source of funding “Volunteer.” Northeastern’s Global Resilience Institute, where he was a distinguished senior fellow, announced the same volunteer assignment in his personal capacity.
Delaware Superior Court, in Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Newsmax Media, Inc., C.A. No. N21C-11-028 EMD, opinion dated September 12, 2024, summarized his deposition this way: he “is a board member and chair of the board with Smartmatic”; President Biden “appointed Mr. Neffenger to President Biden’s transition team, focusing on ‘general management issues within [DHS] and immigration in particular’”; and he “maintained that role with President Biden’s team from September 2020 to January 2021.” Those sentences are the court’s paraphrase of sworn testimony in a defamation docket. They are not a finding that he altered ballots.
Snopes and contemporaneous fact-checks accepted the two public facts — Smartmatic U.S. chair, Biden DHS volunteer — and rejected the extra claim that Smartmatic was a Dominion subsidiary or that he chaired Dominion. This site follows that split. The overlap is documented. A Dominion-subsidiary story is not. A criminal finding against Neffenger on 2020 ballots is not in the records located for this draft.