The Dominion Voting Systems, which has been used in multiple states where fraud has been alleged in the 2020 U.S. Election, was rejected three times by data communications experts from the Texas . [96], In an April 2022 article focusing on the case, Forbes noted that there could be additional lawsuits filed by Dominion which "has identified more than 150 people as potential targets of litigation". She went on to say that the continuing lies have resulted in continued threats of violence against the company. The nondescript name and building match the relative anonymity of the company, more commonly known as ES&S, which has operated in obscurity for years despite its central role in U.S. elections. "[108], In early July 2022, two lawyers from U.K.-based Kennedys Law LLP, Michael J. Tricarico and Marc Casarino joined Powell's legal team of Lawrence J. Joseph and J. Howard Kleinhendler in the defamation cases involving Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic. [92] A Fox News motion to dismiss the suit was denied on December 16, 2021, by a Delaware Superior Court judge. [69] Coomer asserted they had characterized him as a "traitor" and that as a result he was subjected to "multiple credible death threats". The voters rewarded him with nearly 11 million more votes in 2020-from the most diverse corners. In those documents, Fox's attorneys offer "omitted context" for the seemingly incendiary remarks by such hosts as Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo, as well as their featured guests, including Trump and his former campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. Fee Status: Fee Paid. The letter identified two passive investors, Nancy McCarthy and Kenneth Stinson, who own stakes of more than 5 percent in McCarthy Group. [120], It was announced on October 3, 2022, that the Supreme Court of the United States had declined Mike Lindell's appeal against Judge Carl Nichols' ruling; allowing Dominion's case to proceed. [15][16] Both lawsuits accused Powell and Giuliani of waging a "viral disinformation campaign" against the company involving "demonstrably false" claims. [124], In early December 2022, the Delaware Superior Court filed notice that Lachlan Murdoch would be deposed under oath at a Los Angeles law firm. (Fox attorneys previously fended off an unrelated defamation lawsuit against star Tucker Carlson filed by a woman who had an affair with Trump by arguing no one believes that what the Fox star says is literally true.). [11][12][13][14] In January 2021, Dominion filed defamation lawsuits against former Trump campaign lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, seeking $1.3 billion in damages from each. That has led to calls for ES&S and its competitors, Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems and Austin, Texas-based Hart Intercivic, to reveal details about their ownership and the origins of the parts, some of which come from China, that make up their machines. I made f-ing sure of that. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. [83] The suit against Powell had been filed on January 8, 2021, but those employed by Dominion were only able to serve her the summons on January 28, 2021. Lindell had recently bragged publicly of disregarding an FBI request to not disclose the seizure of his phone in an unrelated criminal case involving Tina Peters, a Republican Mesa County clerk who was charged in engaging in a data breach of Dominion Voting System machines. The government delegated to them the most important governmental function, mainly counting votes in a presidential election. The Voter's Self Defense System - Vote Smart [7][8][9] These conspiracy theories were further discredited by hand recounts of the ballots cast in the 2020 presidential elections in Georgia and Wisconsin; the hand recounts in these states found that Dominion voting machines had accurately tabulated votes, that any error in the initial tabulation was instead caused by human error, and that Biden had defeated Trump in both battleground states.[10]. Sharpies invalidating conservative voter's ballots, Fact check: Viral photo shows fake logo and slogan for Dominion Voting Systems, Fact check: False claim that electronic voting software companies Dominion and Smartmatic have closed, AP News, Dec. 1, 2020, Family of Hugo Chavez does not own Dominion Voting Systems, Politifact, Dec. 3, 2020,No, Hugo Chavezs family does not own Dominion Voting Systems, SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: FACTS & RUMORS, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. "[101] The Daily Beast reported that Lindell had hired veteran First Amendment lawyer Nathan Lewin, and was also receiving informal advice from Alan Dershowitz, who stated "My role is to come up with ideas as they pertain to the First Amendment. The communications showed the network was concerned that not reporting the falsehoods would alienate viewers and cause them to switch to rival conservative networks, impacting corporate profitability. The claims about interference and fraud from the campaign's supporters range from Sharpies invalidating conservative voter's ballotsin Arizona to Hugo Chvez the deceased former president of Venezuela owning part of Dominion Voting Systems, whose machines are used in 28 states. Dominion Voting Systems has sent a slew of retraction and/or record preservation demand letters as it threatens defamation litigation against numerous parties which Dominion's lawyers say falsely accused the company of orchestrating a conspiracy to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump and hand it to Joe Biden. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, March 04, 1854, Image 4, brought to you by Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and the National Digital Newspaper Program. Elections New Brunswick officially suspended the results reporting count with 17 ridings still undeclared. Tweets & replies. [9], Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani made several false assertions about Dominion, including that its voting machines used software developed by a competitor, Smartmatic, which he claimed actually owned Dominion, and which he said was founded by the former socialist Venezuelan leader Hugo Chvez. In that case Fox settled the case before Hannity could be deposed. This month, a group of Democratic politicians sent the private equity firms that own the major election vendors a letter asking them to disclose a range of such information, including ownership, finances and research investments. [117] They reported that sources "expected Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, who own and control the Fox Corporation, to sit for depositions as soon as this month". [6] Dominion's role in this regard led supporters of then-President Donald Trump to promote conspiracy theories about the company's voting machines, following Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the election. Those claims were debunked by Maricopa County officials even before Election Day: "Even if there is bleed through it won't impact counting because our upgraded ballots have off-centered columns and our new tabulators only read the ovals," the county elections department tweeted on Oct. 26, 2020, for example. Dominion was started by him," he adds. [44] This delay in results reporting was caused by an off-the-shelf software application unrelated to Dominion. The News Corp. building in New York City, home to Fox News. [1] This equipment includes the DVS ImageCast Evolution (ICE), ImageCast X (ICX), and ImageCast Central (ICC). "Fox's journalists and managers were repeatedly told the stories about the voting machine were false, over a period of weeks," Lucy Dalglish, the dean of the University of Maryland Merrill College of Journalism, writes in an email for this story. Officials in Maryland and North Carolina have started questioning voting machine makers about potential foreign ownership. Christopher Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, characterized the claim as "nonsense" and a "hoax". [96] It also reported that Dominion has "sent letters to preserve evidence and warning of potential litigation to right-wing figures including pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood and Melissa Carone, who Giuliani has promoted as a witness to supposed voter fraud efforts. ES&S machines underwent eight weeks of vulnerability testing and penetration by government hackers. Scrutiny of the U.S. election system, spurred by Russias interference in the 2016 election, has put Election Systems & Software in the political spotlight. 67% of employees would recommend working at Dominion Voting Systems to a friend and 54% have a positive outlook for the business. Because it is privately owned, ES&S is not legally obligated to reveal its ownership or any other details about its finances, although Burt did confirm that the company generated about $100 million in sales last year. Kevin Hagen/Getty Images Voting System Examination(s) and Status for Dominion. [52] There is no evidence for any of these claims, which have been debunked by various groups including election technology experts, government and voting industry officials, and the CISA. [3] The company maintains headquarters in Toronto and in Denver, Colorado. [58] Trump attorney Sidney Powell promoted the allegations on Lou Dobbs's Fox Business program two days after the election, and again two days later on Maria Bartiromo's program, claiming to have "evidence that that is exactly what happened". Fox News host Lou Dobbs had been outspoken during his program about the accusations, and on December 18 his program aired a video segment refuting the accusations, though Dobbs himself did not comment. The GOP-controlled Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted in July to replace them. [119], On February 16, 2023, Dominion Voting Systems filed a motion for summary judgment against Fox News, with dozens of internal communications,[126] sent during the months after the 2020 presidential election, showing several prominent network hosts and senior executivesincluding chairman Murdoch and CEO Suzanne Scottdiscussing their knowledge that the election fraud allegations they were reporting were false. Det skriver Hans Rustad her. Hahahaha. Dominion Voting Systems, an elections technology company founded in Toronto, is being targeted by U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies as they claim the recent presidential election. Revenue: $5 to $25 million (USD) Competitors: Election Systems & Software, Hart InterCivic, Clear Ballot Group. "Not to mention, Dominion, the software company that is in charge of the election, 28% of that is owned by Hugo (expletive) Chvez, a goddamn communist in Venezuela.". Kevin Monahan is a producer for the NBC News Investigative Unit. (The Murdochs and Fox refused to reverse the projection despite intense pressure from Trump and his campaign.) The litigation has led to people joking that Dominion will soon own . [46][47], Dominion's architecture was also widely used in the 2018 Ontario municipal elections on October 22, 2018, particularly for online voting. The plaintiffs had alleged that Dominion, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and the Center for Tech and Civic Life "engaged in concerted action to interfere with the 2020 presidential election through a coordinated effort to, among other things, change voting laws without legislative approval, use unreliable voting machines, alter votes through an illegitimate adjudication process [and] privately fund only certain municipalities and counties". Dominion . That could include intellectual property, such as source code, materials or blueprints. Chris Wlaschin, head of systems security for ES&S, said at a Homeland Security cybersecurity summit in Washington in September that the companys machines are not prone to a remote attack over the internet. The ATI device has raised keys with tactile function, includes the headphone jack and a T-coil coupling, and has a T4 rating for interference. A developer and principle architect work on software. Should we care? New questions about voting machines as 2020 election approaches, a letter asking them to disclose a range of such information, invested in a Maryland election services firm. [70][75], On April 5, 2022, Coomer filed a lawsuit in Denver District Court against MYPillow CEO Mike Lindell, along with his company, and his media platform Frankspeech for spreading the unsupported Oltmann claims and having "intentionally and persistently defamed Coomer as a 'traitor'". Byrne. NBC News examined publicly available online shipping records for ES&S for the past five years and found that many parts, including electronics and tablets, were made in China and the Philippines, raising concerns about technology theft or sabotage. And criticism of how the government conducted a presidential election is the highest bar protecting the First Amendment right to criticize such action. Terri McCullough is Chief of Staff to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve in a paid capacity in that role. Georgia uses the Dominion voting machines and KnowInk poll books statewide systems that the state only deployed in every county for the first time this year after replacing its previous. But after reviewing the most recent legal filings, Wienner says he believes Fox is in legal trouble. 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Amid claims by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that this year's election might be "rigged," some people took this as concrete evidence that Soros, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, would. The defamation suit against Mr. Giuliani seeks more than $1.3 billion in damages. [15] Ron Watkins, a leading proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory,[62][63] posted videos on Twitter in early December of a Dominion employee using one of the machines, falsely stating that the employee was pictured tampering with election results. [115] According to Kushner, he spoke to Rupert Murdoch on election night 2020 after Fox News reported that the electoral votes for Arizona had been won by Joe Biden. [43] The Progressive Conservatives and the People's Alliance of New Brunswick called for a hand count of all ballots. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988. Allegations of voter fraud in Detroit. In accord with this action, they were to seek a deposition from former Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar. 5.5.8.1. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images. Problems in Michigan, Georgia. Additionally, despite being a privately held company that does not disclose its financials, CEO Jeff Poulous said in a letter to the House Committee on Administration that he owns a 12% stake ofthe company, while75.2% is owned by Staple Street Capital andno other investors own more than a 5% stake, the Associated Press reported. ES&S Chief Executive Tom Burt dismissed criticism as inevitable and impossible to answer, but he called for greater oversight of the national election process. [95] The lawsuit against OANN also named its anchors Chanel Rion and Christina Bobb. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. [22] The company develops proprietary software in-house and sells electronic voting hardware and software, including voting machines and tabulators, in the U.S. and Canada and employs a development team in its Serbian office. More:Fact check: Viral photo shows fake logo and slogan for Dominion Voting Systems In a video posted Nov. 30 to Facebook on the page Community Tap News, a man who claims to be a Biden voter and . "[117] Looking for connections to the Venezuelan dictator who died in 2013, lawyers for Fox in court filings have asked Dominion to turn over any internal communications going back over a decade that include any of the words "Hugo", "Chavez", "tampered", "backdoor", "stolen", or "Trump". ImageCast Evolution is an optical scan tabulator designed for use in voting precincts that scans and tabulates marked paper ballots. [101] As evidence of harm, he stated: "MyPillow employees have been subjected to ridicule in their personal lives, and death threats necessitating protection from local law enforcement employees are subjected to daily hateful and barbaric calls, emails, and comments on the company's social media platforms. (A few days after the election, as Fox has noted, anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum pushed McDaniel repeatedly for any proof of her insinuations.). [45], In June 2018, Elections Ontario used Dominion's tabulator machines for the provincial election and deployed them at 50percent of polling stations. [98] Angelo Carusone of Media Matters for America told reporters that as 90% of OAN's revenue came from DirecTV that the company will not survive through Dominion's lawsuit against it, but will "be wiped out from the litigation costs. The walls were decorated with images of the Constitution and inspirational messages about quality control. [108][109] In response to the development, a spokesperson for Fox News stated: "We are confident we will prevail as freedom of the press is foundational to our democracy and must be protected, in addition to the damages claims being outrageous, unsupported and not rooted in sound financial analysis, serving as nothing more than a flagrant attempt to deter our journalists from doing their jobs. Company - Private. They said Dominion was backed by Venezuela, and that its machines and software switched millions of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. USA TODAY, Jan. 23, "Dominion Voting Systems files $1.3B defamation suit against ex-Trump . Each adjudicated ballot is marked with the username of the poll worker who made the change. However, 51 of the province's municipalities had their elections impacted when the company's colocation centre provider imposed an unauthorized bandwidth cap due to the massive increase in voting traffic in the early evening, thus making it impossible for many voters to cast their vote at peak voting time. The secrecy of ES&S and its competitors has pushed politicians to seek information on security, oversight, finances and ownership. In a video posted Nov. 30 to Facebookon the page Community Tap News,a man who claims to be a Biden voter and who said he originally doubted claims of election fraud, said that after tuning into a meeting featuring Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis and Arizona state lawmakers, he began to doubt the legitimacy of the election. 6,885 Followers. [11][12][13][14], Dominion filed defamation lawsuits against former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell on January 8, 2021, and against Giuliani on January 25, 2021, asking for $1.3 billion in damages from each. [104] Dominion pointed to a claim that Murdoch urged a Republican leader to ask other party members not to endorse the false theory. Fox's supplemental filings last week also reproduce the affidavit of an anonymous man said to be a security guard for a Venezuelan president. Allegations of voter fraud in Detroit. The attorney has been unable to get Dominion's suit tossed and is seeking $10 million in damages. Fox News' attorneys have set out the starkest defense yet against the accusation the network defamed an election-technology company when it broadcast false claims that the company had cheated then-President Donald Trump of victory in the 2020 election. 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The lawsuit alleges Fox News personalities including Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Pirro, Sean . [27][28], Poulos, President and CEO of Dominion, has a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from INSEAD. Published Nov 8, 2020. Only a glimpse of that has come into public view. [125] Previously Fox's lawyers had stated that any efforts to depose the Murdochs and put them at the center of the case would just be a "fruitless fishing expedition". President Trump has openly criticized Dominion as he attempts to challenge voting results across the country, alleging widespread voter fraud and tweeting about the company Friday afternoon.. Fixed: Release in which this issue/RFE has been fixed.The release containing this fix may be available for download as an Early Access Release or a General Availability Release. [58][59] Asserting that Krebs's analysis was "highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud", Trump fired him by tweet days later. And the results of its government penetration tests, in which authorized hackers try to break in so vulnerabilities can be identified and fixed, have yet to be revealed. Federal cybersecurity officials have verified there are software vulnerabilities in certain ballot-marking devices made by Dominion Voting Systems, discovered during a controversial Georgia. In the new filings, Fox's lawyers are seeking to offer its own context for what played out on the network's shows. Tweets. Because it is privately owned, ES&S is not legally obligated to reveal. In glass-walled rooms etched with the companys patents, technicians tested machines under tight security. [4][5] Dominion voting machines have been used in countries around the world, primarily in Canada and the United States. It said any confusion would be resolved by tallying by hand. [69] Among those named in the lawsuit were the Trump campaign, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, and Colorado businessman and activist Joseph Oltmann. I give them cases, and I suggest First Amendment theoriesmy role is limited to advising on the First Amendment issues at hand. Terri has always met and exceeded my expectations in terms of. 5.5.12.1. In today's election market, Dominion Voting Systems sets itself apart with a commitment to customer service, convenience, and a superior use of . [51], Trump and others also made unsubstantiated claims that Dominion had close ties to the Clinton family or other Democrats. [117] Sources also told the Times that Dominion was focusing on Lachlan Murdoch's reaction to President Trump's anger at the network calling Arizona for Biden, seeking to place him "in the room when the decisions about election coverage were being made". But ES&S still faces questions about the companys supply chain and the identities of its investors, although it has said it is entirely owned by Americans. [14] Fox News, Fox Business, and Newsmax all aired fact checks of their own previous coverage of Dominion and competitor Smartmatic after Smartmatic threatened lawsuits, and after they were listed as other groups spreading falsehoods about Dominion in the lawsuit by Dominion against Giuliani. Plaintiff's attorneys were ordered to pay $180,000 for the defendants' attorneys' fees, with the judge finding that the lawsuit was filed "in bad faith" and made frivolous arguments. The state can renew the contract for an additional 10 years afterward. Dominion Voting Systems filed a motion for summary judgment Thursday in its $1.6-billion defamation case against Fox News . Officials in Maryland and North Carolina have started questioning voting machine makers about potential foreign ownership. In June, he wrote an op-ed asking Congress for more regulation, which would include requirements for paper backups of individual votes, mandatory post-election audits and more resources for the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to speed improvements. More: Fact check: Viral photo shows fake logo and slogan for Dominion Voting Systems. US federal district court in Washington D.C. The chief executive officer of Dominion Voting Systems on Thursday did not rule out taking legal action against President Donald Trump as the election technology company has been the target. Thomas Wienner, a retired corporate litigator based in Michigan who is following the case at NPR's request, says he appreciates the logic of the Fox team in seeking to undercut each element of Dominion's claims. ES&S said McCarthy Groups bylaws prevented it from revealing other individual investors, but it affirmed that they are all U.S. citizens or trusts or corporations owned by Americans. Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite 5.5-A. Powell, who accused Dominion of manipulating the election, faces a $1.3 billion defamation suit. The Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5/5.5S Voting System was evaluated for certification by the State of Michigan on March 27 -28, 2019. But sometimes it makes it worse. "[103] He ruled that Dominion had made a "reasonable inference" concerning Newsmax's actions and let the case proceed. The lawyers contend the supposedly defamatory statements often involved hyperbolic characterizations or mere opinions. [17][18] During subsequent months, Dominion filed suits seeking $1.6 billion in damages from each of Fox News, Newsmax, OANN and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne,[19] while also suing Mike Lindell and his corporation, MyPillow. Rebel News entered the building headquarters for Dominion Voting Systems. "[117] Among the current and former Fox personnel who have given or were set to give depositions in August were Steve Doocy, Dana Perino, and Shepard Smith. It has . [35] In 2019, the state of Georgia selected Dominion Voting Systems to provide its new statewide voting system beginning in 2020.[36]. [110] By July 13, 2022, Kleinhendler withdrew from the team. Dominion provided the court with reports from various news outlets that Rupert Murdoch had "spoke with Trump and other senior Republicans shortly after the election and urged them to drop their election-fraud narrative and concede defeat". Lindell told reporters that he was unconcerned with the ruling as "I've got lawyers doing more important things like removing these machines from every state. [33][failed verification], The Election Management System (EMS) includes a set of applications that handle pre- and post-voting activities, including ballot layout, programming media for voting equipment, generation of audio files, importing results data, and accumulating and reporting results. The network's lawyers write, as they have before, that Fox was merely relaying inherently newsworthy claims by Trump and his surrogates. In a letter to NBC News, ES&S said it takes great care with its foreign supply chain, including conducting risk assessments and making on-site visits to suppliers to make sure that components are trusted, tested and free of malware. It said that all of its facilities adhere to international standards, that it manufactures in compliance with all federal guidelines and that it follows cybersecurity best practices.
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