Dear Ron,
Kimmel Illustrates All 3 Years of President Trump’s 16,241 Lies: "More Lies Than Visible Stars"
"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"
Trump's campaign officials and attorneys are peddling this nonsense with help from credulous Fox News hosts, but their theories don't stand up to scrutiny.
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| Industry | Electronic voting hardware |
| Founded | 2002; 18 years ago |
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| Headquarters | |
| Owner | Management Staple Street Capital |
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| Website | dominionvoting.com |
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.[1] The company's headquarters are in Toronto, Ontario, and Denver, Colorado.[2] It develops software in-house in offices in the United States, Canada, and Serbia.[3]
Dominion offers two main types of technology related to voting. First, machines that directly receive and process votes, or touchscreen devices,[4] which voters directly use to vote. Second, the tabulation of paper ballots cast by non-electronic means—for example, absentee ballots—via optical scan[5] voting systems.
While Dominion voting machines have been utilized in countries around the world, its two main clients are Canada and the United States.
While Dominion voting machines have been utilized in countries around the world, its two main clients are Canada and the United States. Dominion systems are employed in Canada's major party leadership elections, including those of the Liberal Party of Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada, and the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario; and they are also used across the nation in local and municipal elections. In regards to the United States, Dominion products have been increasingly utilized in recent years. The company drew extensive attention during the United States presidential election of 2020, when devices manufactured by Dominion were used to process votes in twenty-eight states, including the swing states of Wisconsin and Georgia,.[6]
After President Donald Trump was defeated by President-elect Joe Biden in the 2020 election, Trump and various surrogates promoted conspiracy theories about Dominion, alleging that the company was part of an international cabal to steal the election from Trump, and that it used its voting machines to transfer millions of votes from Trump to Biden.[7][8][9] There is no evidence supporting these claims, which have been debunked by various groups including election technology experts, government and voting industry officials, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).[7][8][9] These conspiracy theories were further discredited by a hand recount of the ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia; the hand recount found that Dominion voting machines had accurately tabulated votes, that any error in the initial tabulation was human error, and that Biden had defeated Trump in the battleground state.[10]
Operations
United States
Dominion is the second-largest seller of voting machines in the United States.[23] In 2016, its machines served 70 million voters in 1,600 jurisdictions.[24] In 2019, the state of Georgia selected Dominion Voting Systems to provide its new statewide voting system beginning in 2020.[25]
In total, 28 states used Dominion voting machines to tabulate their votes during the 2020 United States presidential election, including most of the swing states.[26] Dominion's role in this regard led supporters of President Donald Trump to promote conspiracy theory's about the company's voting machines, following Trump's defeat to Joe Biden in the election.
2020 election controversy
Following the 2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump and some other right-wing personalities amplified the hoax originated by the proponents of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems had been compromised, resulting in millions of votes intended for Trump either being deleted or going to rival Joe Biden.[8][9][7] Trump was citing the pro-Trump OANN media outlet, which itself claimed to cite a report from Edison Research, an election monitoring group.[27] Edison Research said that they did not write such a report, and that they "have no evidence of any voter fraud."[27]
Trump and others also made unsubstantiated claims that Dominion had close ties to the Clinton family or other Democrats.[28] 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 CISA.[7][9] On November 12, 2020, CISA released a statement that confirmed "there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised." The statement was signed by various government and voting industry officials including the presidents of the National Association of State Election Directors and the National Association of Secretaries of State.[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 Chávez. 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.[29][30]
In a related hoax, Dennis Montgomery, a software designer with a history of making dubious claims,[31] asserted that a government supercomputer program was used to switch votes from Trump to Biden on voting machines.[31] 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." Christopher Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, characterized the claim as "nonsense" and a "hoax."[31][32] Asserting that Krebs's analysis was "highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud," Trump fired him by tweet days later.[33]
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. Apparently speaking about the ICE machine, one source responded that this was incorrect, and that Dominion voting machines are only a "ballot marking device" system in which the voter deposits their printed ballot into a box for counting.[34]
He is getting worse.
From: Schulte, Paul A. (CDC/NIOSH/DSI)
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 12:39 PM
To: Velda Smiley
Subject: FW:
From: Ronald Firman
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 11:47 AM
To: Schulte, Paul A. (CDC/NIOSH/DSI)
Subject:
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