An activation card is required for use, which is provided by a poll worker. My name is John Poulos, and I am the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Dominion Voting Systems. She went on to say that the continuing lies have resulted in continued threats of violence against the company. [43] The Progressive Conservatives and the People's Alliance of New Brunswick called for a hand count of all ballots. A Harvard law professor recently told the Guardian he had never seen a defamation case with such overwhelming proof that the defendant admitted in writing that it was making up fake information in order to increase its viewership and its revenues. "[103] He went on to say that as "Newsmax apparently refused to report contrary evidence, including evidence from the Department of Justice, the allegations support the reasonable inference that Newsmax intended to keep Dominion's side of the story out of the mainstream. 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. In a deposition, Hannity said: That whole narrative that Sidney was pushing, I did not believe it for one second. Calling . Additionally, no foreign national or foreign government has a stake in the company. Dozens of Republican officials, including some who were elected in the same processthat they falsely claim had widespread fraud, have backed the Trump campaign's unsuccessful attempts to overturn the results of the election. Ballot inspection allows users to review ballots with exceptional conditions and either accept or resolve the ballot according to state laws. Dominion Voting Systems Corporation was founded in 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by John Poulos and James Hoover. The man in the video does not identify himself beyond saying he voted in Maricopa County, Arizona. Dominion further stated its intentions were to stop Lindell from using MyPillow to profit off of election conspiracy theories at the expense of Dominion. [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. "[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. Fox targeted Dominion's private-equity owner in an unredacted counterclaim to Dominion's request . In its own filing made public on Monday, Fox argued that its coverage of statements by Trump and his lawyers were inherently newsworthy and that Dominions extreme interpretation of defamation law would stop the media in its tracks. (He along with L. Lin Wood had worked alongside Powell challenging the election results of 2020 in what are sometimes referred to as the "Kraken" cases. [104] Dominion pointed to a claim that Murdoch urged a Republican Leader to ask other party members not to endorse the false theory. The statement also says there are no ownership ties to the governments of China, Cuba or Venezuela. Dominion filed the lawsuit months after the 2020 presidential election . "[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. The main claim in the post is FALSE, based on our research. And they are therefore subject to criticism in the exact same ways that the government would be subject to criticism in that situation. 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. Kern is a Republican member of the Arizona state House of Representatives. I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight, Murdoch said in the deposition, the New York Times reported on Monday. "[79][80], Dominion sent My Pillow CEO and Trump supporter Mike Lindell a letter in January 2021 stating, "you have positioned yourself as a prominent leader of the ongoing misinformation campaign" and that "litigation regarding these issues is imminent". [25] In June 2010, Dominion acquired Sequoia Voting Systems. [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. It allows a jurisdiction to resolve problems in a ballot on screen that would normally be rejected, to be remade or hand counted because of one or more exceptional conditions like a blank ballot, write-ins, over-votes, marginal marks and under-votes. They are repeatedly labeled 'inherently improbable' and even 'impossible.' Haspel is not dead. "[101] The Daily Beast reported that Lindel 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. [104][105] Dominion also pointed out that Murdoch's other media outlets The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post condemned the conspiracy theory, and urged Trump to concede, which the court held supported "a reasonable inference that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch either knew Dominion had not manipulated the election or at least recklessly disregarded the truth", and therefore should be subject to factual discovery. Stifel, Nicolaus & Company and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP advised Dominion Voting. Newly released court documents reveal that Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of Fox News, acknowledged under oath that several Fox News hosts endorsed Donald Trumps lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. But I didnt, he said. )[111][112][113][114], Media outlets such as the Guardian mentioned the lawsuit against Fox News in late July, when excerpts of Jared Kushner's book Breaking History were released. [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." [76], On May 13, 2022, Colorado State District Judge Marie Avery Moses rejected motions to dismiss the case made by the Trump campaign, Powell, Giuliani, and other defendants. That's all I'm willing to say." Scytl, which provides election night reporting and other online election . Dominions motion for summary judgment was replete with emails and statements in which Murdoch and other top Fox executives say the claims made about Dominion on air were false part of the voting machine companys effort to prove the network either knew the statements it aired were false or recklessly disregarded their accuracy. Dominion Voting System donated thousands of dollars to an anti-Trump Republican PAC linked to our Sec of State in Nevada. The lawsuit, which asked for $1.3 billion in damages, alleged, "MyPillow's defamatory marketing campaignwith promo codes like 'FightforTrump,' '45,' 'Proof,' and 'QAnon'has increased MyPillow sales by 30-40% and continues duping people into redirecting their election-lie outrage into pillow purchases." Murdoch acknowledged in his deposition that he could have ordered the network not to platform Trump lawyers such as Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani on its programs: I could have. [69] Coomer asserted they had characterized him as a "traitor" and that as a result he was subjected to "multiple credible death threats". Their revenues came from 19 states and 133 local governments . Lindell told reporters that he was unconcerned with the ruling as "Ive got lawyers doing more important things like removing these machines from every state. "[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. 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. After losing the 2020 presidential election, which wascertified by the Electoral Collegeon Dec. 14, outgoing President Donald Trump has waged a campaign of disinformation about election interference and voter fraud. Dominion was foundedin Canada in 2003, and the company's majority owner is Staple Street Capital, which is based in New York City. But thanks to Dominion Voting Systems, which is pursuing a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, we now know that the network's sense of crisis was even more intense than it appeared from . Sign up here to start receiving our newsletter. [1] This equipment includes the DVS ImageCast Evolution (ICE), ImageCast X (ICX), and ImageCast Central (ICC). NEW YORK, July 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Voting Systems ("Dominion Voting") announces that it has been acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital, a leading New York-based, middle-market private equity firm. In total, 28states used Dominion voting machines to tabulate their votes during the 2020 United States presidential election, including most of the swing states. [107], On July 11, 2022, the court docket for the case showed that Dominion had issued a subpoena to former Attorney General William Barr. Dominion Voting Systems is out for blood in its defamation case against Fox News. 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. CLAIM: Dominion Voting Systems, one of the most widely used election technology firms in the United States, is owned by the company Smartmatic through an intermediary company called Indra. [27][28], Poulos, President and CEO of Dominion, has a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from INSEAD. The mogul made the admission during a deposition in the $1.6bn defamation lawsuit brought against the network by the voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems, which has accused Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation, of maligning its reputation. The ImageCast Evolution is a precinct-based optical scan tabulator. The results are dropped into a folder located on the server where they can be accessed by the Adjudication Client software. "[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". Still, the network continued to give coverage to proponents of the election fraud narrative as it feared upsetting its viewers. [41] New Brunswick used Dominion's 763tabulator machines in the 2014 provincial elections. [15][16] Both lawsuits accused Powell and Giuliani of waging a "viral disinformation campaign" against the company involving "demonstrably false" claims. [92] A Fox News motion to dismiss the suit was denied on December 16, 2021, by a Delaware Superior Court judge. Dominion provides election equipment and software to 28 states, including many of the swing states on which Trump has focused his post-election ire. [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". October 23, 2022 / 6:56 PM / CBS News. This false claim is based on two people . [14], After Dominion filed the lawsuit against Powell, OANN removed all references to Dominion and Smartmatic from its website without issuing public retractions. 0:31. Dominion claims in a $1.6-billion . The mogul made the admission during a deposition in the $1.6bn defamation lawsuit brought against the network by the voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems, which has accused Fox News and . [66] In one of their lawsuits, Dominion explained they had spent $565,000 on security as a result. The host further acknowledged that Smartmatic is not owned by any foreign entity, nor is it connected to George Soros, as had been alleged. "[102], Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis, on June 6, 2022, denied a motion from Newsmax to dismiss Dominion's case against them. 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. AP'S ASSESSMENT: False. [100], Andrew Parker, a lawyer for My Pillow, Inc., on April 18, 2022, filed a countersuit in Minnesota asserting that Dominion is a governmental actor due to contracting with state and local agencies and that it had violated the company's rights under the First and Fourteenth amendment as well as inflicting "tortious interference with prospective businessusing today's cancel culture to eliminate dissent and to cover up the election issues that compromised the 2020 result. [26], In 2018, Dominion was acquired by its management and Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm. [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. [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. [6], The company was subjected to extensive attention following the 2020 election, in which then-president Donald Trump was defeated by Joe Biden, with Trump and various surrogates promoting conspiracy theories, which falsely alleged that Dominion was part of an international cabal that stole the election from Trump, and that it used its voting machines to transfer millions of votes that had been cast for Trump instead to Biden. With the defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting . 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". [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'". 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. CLAIM: President-elect Joe Biden's sister is married to Stephen Owens, the co-founder of the private equity firm Staple Street Capital, which owns Dominion Voting Systems. In previous court filings, attorneys for Dominion have argued that Fox News hosts ridiculed Trumps false claims of a stolen election while promoting those lies on television. Dominion Voting Systems Corporation is a company that produces and sells electronic voting hardware and software, including voting machines and tabulators, in Canada and the United States. Reuters reported that a Fox spokesperson said that Dominions view of defamation law would prevent journalists from basic reporting. [97], On April 20, 2022, Judge Nichols ruled that Dominion's defamation lawsuit against Byrne could move forward denying his motion to dismiss the case. [117] Accounts hold that the younger Murdoch did not pressure anyone to reverse the call, but "he did ask detailed questions about the process that Fox's election analysts had used after the call became so contentious. Axios media reporter Sara Fischer told CNN on Tuesday that Fox News insiders have privately told her that they think they're going to lose the $1.6 billion lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems . This is false. In a nearly 200-page document filed as part of its billion-dollar defamation suit against the network, Dominion Voting Systems shared emails, . Dominion sued Fox News and parent company Fox Corporation in March 2021 and November 2021 in Delaware superior court, alleging the cable TV network amplified false claims that Dominion voting machines were used to rig the 2020 election against Trump, a Republican who lost to Democratic rival Biden. 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. 5G telecom, drones also at risk of supply-chain threats. [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". Feb. 27, 2023, 8:04 PM UTC By Ja'han Jones Staple Street bought Dominion Voting Systems for an undisclosed amount in July 2018. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning), Machine Tools, Metalworking and Metallurgy, Aboriginal, First Nations & Native American. According to redacted filings by Dominion Voting Systems on Monday, Murdoch said that he regretted "not being stronger in denouncing" the claims of election fraud. [44] This delay in results reporting was caused by an off-the-shelf software application unrelated to Dominion. 'Crazy Stuff. [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. Namely, the link between Dominion and China was not as straightforward as Wood first claimed. Lindell's filing said the companies had "weaponized" the courts in an act of "lawfare" to try to silence him. "[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. Our fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook. Judge Davis stated that Newsmax "knew the allegations were probably false" about Dominion's technology, and "there were enough signs indicating the statements were not true to infer Newsmax's intent to avoid the truth. Last week, political blogs started reporting about concerns that billionaire George Soros owned a company that manufactures voting machines used in 16 states, including . And criticism of how the government conducted a presidential election is the highest bar protecting the First Amendment right to criticize such action. Could Dominion's litigation reshape the . More information: www.staplestreetcapital.com. Dominion also provides ballot tabulation and voting systems for 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. [117], In mid-August 2022, documents from the Dauphin County prothonotary's office revealed that Dominion plans to subpoena the Pennsylvania Department of State for records related to its case against Fox News. The deposition was set to begin on December 5 and "will continue from day to day (Sundays and holidays excluded) until complete, unless otherwise agreed. As an example they pointed to how Fox News had settled in 2020 after the parents of Seth Rich sued due to Hannity and other Fox personnel trying to link his death to an email hack. Kirkland & Ellis LLP and McMillan LLP advised Staple Street Capital. NEW YORK, July 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Voting Systems ("Dominion Voting") announces that it has been acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital, a leading New York -based . Vendors want help from Department of Homeland Security. Dominion Voting Systems is not messing around. 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Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of Fox News, has acknowledged some of the network's . Social media users have been sharing content online that alleges President-elect Joe Biden's sister . [3], Dominion produces electronic voting machines, which allow voters to cast their votes electronically as well as optical scanning devices used to tabulate paper ballots. Despite a rash of unsubstantiated claims lobbed against his company, the CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, John Poulos, has remained largely silent. Disproven claims about Donald Trump's loss in 2020, many debunked in real time by Fox's own reporters, are part of Fox News' defense against a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. [23][24], In May 2010, Dominion acquired Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems, Inc.) from Election Systems & Software (ES&S). 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