"[8], During the 2021 German federal election, the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy found that accusations of Dominion engaging in voter fraud were common among German far-right users of Telegram, despite the company's technology not being used in German elections. But after reviewing the most recent legal filings, Wienner says he believes Fox is in legal trouble. Dominion Voting Systems Corporation is a company that sells electronic voting hardware and software, including voting machines and tabulators, in the United States and Canada. [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. The Functional Test of the Dominion DemSuite 5.2 voting system was conducted by Office of Voting Systems Technology Assessment staff, SLI staff, and Dominion staff at the Secretary of State's Office located at 1500 11th Street, Sacramento, California from May 30, 2017, through June 15, 2017. [32], Adjudication Client is a software application with administrative and ballot inspection roles. 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. He alleged that Smartmatic had ties to the late Venezuelan autocratic leader Hugo Chavez and warned that both election tech companies were attempting to defraud the U.S. voting public. [122][123], On December 5, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case, Kevin ORourke, et al., v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al., rejected by lower courts. 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. [83] These included "hiring private investigators and pursuing Powell across state lines", and while evading being served, she "refused to respond to requests" offering waivers that could have given her more time to react to the complaint. That explains the sustained embrace of unsustainable claims, Dominion's legal team argues. 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. The lawyers contend the supposedly defamatory statements often involved hyperbolic characterizations or mere opinions. 03/08/2019 04:07 PM EST. Officials in Maryland and North Carolina have started questioning voting machine makers about potential foreign ownership. 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". The government delegated to them the most important governmental function, mainly counting votes in a presidential election. When it comes down to the essentials, voting machine makers behave based on the level of regulation they have, Perez said. [1] The company's headquarters are in Toronto, Ontario, where it was founded, and Denver, Colorado. ", "How 66 voters could have cost Maxime Bernier the Conservative leadership", "Internet Voting: The Canadian Municipal Experience", "Elections NB testing hundreds of tabulators for municipal elections", "Liberals win majority in N.B. [23][24], In May 2010, Dominion acquired Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems, Inc.) from Election Systems & Software (ES&S). Dominion's legal team is counting on a rich reservoir of material from their questioning of Fox journalists and executives under oath and from mining their emails, texts, and other communications. Haspel is not dead. In a sworn deposition cited by a Dominion attorney in court, Hannity said he didn't believe the claims of fraud "for one second." By Dennis Romero. They have not had anybody hold them accountable even on the most basic matters.. [53][54] Giuliani also falsely asserted that Dominion voting machines sent their voting data to Smartmatic at foreign locations and that it is a "radical-left" company with connections to antifa. 5.5.8.1. "[90][91], On March 26, 2021, Dominion filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, alleging that Fox and some of its pundits spread conspiracy theories about Dominion, and allowed guests to make false statements about the company. Georgia: In 2019, a $107 million ten-year contract with Dominion procured by the Secretary of State covers 30,000 touch screen voting machines and the installation of a "verified paper ballot". As the case was entering the discovery stage, she expressed concern that Lindell would not abide by the rules of non-disclosure. Im going to ask for this information on the basis of your report within 10 days, he said. A producer begged her peers in an e-mail not to let Pirro go on the air to spread baseless conspiracy theories pulled from dark recesses of the internet. [60], Powell also asserted she had an affidavit from a former Venezuelan military official, a portion of which she posted on Twitter without a name or signature, who asserted that Dominion voting machines would print a paper ballot showing who a voter had selected, but change the vote inside the machine. Our position is that Dominion is the government, for purposes of the First Amendment. Virtually no laws govern the cybersecurity aspects of voting machine technologies. Terri is extremely talented, energetic, and has perspective when it comes to making decisions and communicating change. 5.5.12.1. That's all I'm willing to say." Of the approximately 115 statements on Fox by its hosts and guests that Dominion contends are defamatory, Fox News wrote in its filing, "there is not a single statement for which Dominion can prove every element of its claim for defamation.". 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. Status. [96], The next day, district judge Carl J. Nichols denied motions by Lindell, Powell, and Giuliani to dismiss the lawsuits against them. Dominion is not and has never been a front for communists. Thats starting to change. [84][85] Six days later, Dominion filed defamation lawsuits against My Pillow and Lindell. He did everything in his power, physical strength, and sleepless nights down the stretch for America. [118], On August 31, 2022 Sean Hannity was deposed by Dominion's lawyers. "Noforeign national directly or indirectly owns or controls the company," the statement reads. [44] This delay in results reporting was caused by an off-the-shelf software application unrelated to Dominion. 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. It uses light pressure switches and may be equipped with a pneumatic switch, commonly known as "sip-n-puff", or a set of paddles. The image is exported to a laptop and then printed on blank paper to provide a ballot record. "They didn't just quote Trump. ", "The overall impression you get, when you read the omitted text, is that these people were night after night, day after day, promoting theories that were ridiculous and that had been rejected by the courts," Wienner says. In December 2020 and January 2021, Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, and the American Thinker withdrew allegations they had reported about Dominion and Smartmatic after one or both companies threatened legal action for defamation. Yet in supplementary public filings, the contours of the Fox team's reasoning emerge more sharply in focus. Dominion Voting Systems includes a page on its website addressing viral claims about the 2020 election. 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. Only a glimpse of that has come into public view. Signature verification on mail-in ballots in Arizona, including Maricopa County, is required under state law and per the state's election procedures manual. 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Filing 2 NOTICE of Filing Exhibits by DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS CORPORATION, DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS, INC., US DOMINION, INC. re #1 Complaint, (Attachments: #1 Exhibit 1, #2 Exhibit 3, #3 Exhibit 9, #4 Exhibit 10, #5 Exhibit 11, #6 Exhibit 12, #7 Exhibit 13, #8 Exhibit 14, #9 Exhibit 15, #10 Exhibit 16, #11 Exhibit 17, #12 Exhibit 18, . [32], Dominion is the second-largest seller of voting machines in the United States. In the video, the man acknowledges that Chvez is dead but claims his family still owns Dominion and that Chvez started the software company. "[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. [42] There were some problems with the reporting of tabulator counts after the election, and at 10:45p.m. McCarthy Group did not respond to NBC News requests for comment. But once theyve done that, they focus on selling their product.. 488 Following. Despite motions by the defendants to dismiss the lawsuits, judges ruled that the cases against Fox News, Lindell, and MyPillow could proceed. ", Fox's Jeanine Pirro is back in the hot seat in $1.6 billion election defamation case, anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum pushed McDaniel repeatedly, part of a lawsuit filed by the attorney and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Lin Wood, to have his mental fitness evaluated as it weighed a complaint seeking to strip him of his license to practice law. [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. [68], On December 22, 2020, lawyers representing Eric Coomer, Dominion's director of product strategy and security (who had been forced to go into hiding due to death threats), filed a defamation lawsuit on his behalf in the state of Colorado. Fox News hosts Jeanine Pirro and Maria Bartiromo had also been outspoken about the allegations, and both their programs aired the same video segment over the following two days. President-elect Joe Biden officially secured the presidency after the Electoral College met to give him and Vice President-elect Harris 306 votes. [11][12] Smartmatic also demanded a retraction from Newsmax, which had also promoted baseless conspiracy allegations about the company and Dominion, and on December 21 a Newsmax host acknowledged the network had no evidence the companies had a relationship, adding "No evidence has been offered that Dominion or Smartmatic used software or reprogrammed software that manipulated votes in the 2020 election." They never showed any evidence, but that didn't stop. Dominion further stated its intentions were to stop Lindell from using MyPillow to profit off of election conspiracy theories at the expense of Dominion. [26], In 2018, Dominion was acquired by its management and Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm. [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. The walls were decorated with images of the Constitution and inspirational messages about quality control. Causes of rejection include a blank ballot, an overvoted ballot, and unclear marks. ES&S invited NBC News journalists into its headquarters, the first time it has done so for a national news organization. See more stories on Insider's business page. [35] In 2019, the state of Georgia selected Dominion Voting Systems to provide its new statewide voting system beginning in 2020.[36]. [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. [15] The suit against Giuliani is based on more than fifty statements by Giuliani made on his podcast, at legislative hearings, on Twitter, and in conservative media, and alleges that Giuliani made false statements about the company in an attempt to earn money from legal fees and through his podcast. The voters rewarded him with nearly 11 million more votes in 2020-from the most diverse corners. Further, Fox's attorneys say many of the claims under dispute were true, or largely true. Allegations of voter fraud in Detroit. [51], Trump and others also made unsubstantiated claims that Dominion had close ties to the Clinton family or other Democrats. Her attorney Howard Kleinhendler denied she had tried to evade service, noting that she travels a lot and "has had to take extra precautions concerning her security, which may have made serving her more difficult. In the new filings, Fox's lawyers are seeking to offer its own context for what played out on the network's shows. That's what will cut through the noise.. The source of the nations voting machines has become an urgent issue because of real fears that hackers, whether foreign or domestic, might tamper with the mechanics of the voting system. The sworn deposition of an anonymous witness who said he was a former member of the Venezuelan presidential security team and accused Dominion of committing. The Voter's Self Defense System - Vote Smart "[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. [102] Lindell had sued the companies for defamation after they had filed suit for defamation against him. [31], ImageCast Central uses commercial off-the-shelf Canon DR-X10C or Canon DR-G1130 scanners at a central tabulation location to scan vote-by-mail and post-voting ballots like provisional ballots, ballots requiring duplication and ballots scanned into multi-precinct ICE tabulators. [2] Its name derives from the Dominion Elections Act. The defamation suit against Mr. Giuliani seeks more than $1.3 billion in damages. No proof has emerged to support the unnamed man's claims against Dominion and Smartmatic. [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. Many were unraveled in real time during the 2020 election season often by Fox's own reporters. It ran on the shows hosted by Dobbs, Bartiromo and Pirro. hide caption. [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. Byrne. 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. [104] Dominion pointed to a claim that Murdoch urged a Republican leader to ask other party members not to endorse the false theory. Coomer also said that Oltmann had falsely claimed in a podcast that Coomer had participated in a September 2020 conference call with members of antifa, and that during the call he had said, "Don't worry about the election, Trump is not gonna win. 1 of 2 Terri McCullough, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's chief of staff, is photographed in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on April 2, 2019. Pia Kjrsgaard sprger, om Sren Pind virkelig er den rette mand til at lede det nye medieansvarsudvalg ud fra udtalelser om, hvordan bloggere og influencers i hjere grad kan stilles til ansvar for det indhold, de publicerer og videregiver. The host further acknowledged that Smartmatic is not owned by any foreign entity, nor is it connected to George Soros, as had been alleged. Weekly national intelligencer. Trump alleges Dominion Voting Systems, and the voting machines the election technology supplier uses, are responsible for widespread voter fraud during the 2020 election. The Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5/5.5S Voting System was evaluated for certification by the State of Michigan on March 27 -28, 2019. The statement also says there are no ownership ties to the governments of China, Cuba or Venezuela. More: Fact check: Viral photo shows fake logo and slogan for Dominion Voting Systems. Additionally, no foreign national or foreign government has a stake in the company. Dominion was started by him," he adds. OMAHA, Neb. Scrutiny of the U.S. election system, spurred by Russias interference in the 2016 election, has put Election Systems & Software in the political spotlight. [38][39][40], Ontario was the first Canadian province to use Dominion's tabulator machines in select municipalities in the 2006 municipal elections. [117] Fox's recent replacement of its outside legal team with one of the nation's most prominent trial lawyers was seen as "a sign that executives believe that the chances the case is headed to trial have increased". 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. The man in the video does not identify himself beyond saying he voted in Maricopa County, Arizona. Our fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook. Facing a defamation lawsuit, conservative television outlet Newsmax on Friday apologized to Dominion Voting Systems security director Eric Coomer . 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. 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. Click under Exam Date for examiner reports. It doesn't make it better. In Canada, Dominion's systems are deployed nationwide. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel asserted on Fox that Republican observers were tossed from Michigan voting sites, ominously suggesting that as indirect proof fraud took place. April 30, 2021, 10:03 PM PDT. 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 . You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. In the 2020 United States presidential election, equipment manufactured by Dominion was used to process votes in twenty-eight states, including the swing states of Wisconsin and Georgia. 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". 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. 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