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[[File:Dominion logo.png|right|350px|thumb|Dominion Voting Systems logo: Red ballots in, Blue ballots out.]]

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'''Dominion Voting Systems''' is a company that sells voting hardware and software and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and Denver, Colorado.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201120113520/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-17/trump-s-election-attacks-put-voting-tech-firm-in-the-crosshairs </ref> Dominion was founded in 2004 in [[Venezuela]] to rig elections for the [[dictator]] [[Hugo Chavez]] and later [[Nicolas Maduro]]. The software has been used by the [[CIA]] to rig elections in [[Eastern Europe]]. Dominion acquired the vote-rigging software when it purchased Sequoia Voting Systems from [[Smartmatic]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtGEBRRAC50</ref> which originally developed the software, and signed a non-competition agreement.<ref>[https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-smartmatic-are-not-actually-competitors/ Dominion/Smartmatic ‘Noncompete’ Agreement Emerges Despite Claims Of Being ‘Fierce Competitors’], Natalie Winters, ''National Pulse'', November 21, 2020.</ref>

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'''Dominion Voting Systems''' is a company that sells voting hardware and software and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and Denver, Colorado.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201120113520/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-17/trump-s-election-attacks-put-voting-tech-firm-in-the-crosshairs</ref> Dominion was founded in 2004 in [[Venezuela]] to rig elections for the [[dictator]] [[Hugo Chavez]] and later [[Nicolas Maduro]]. The software has been used by the [[CIA]] to rig elections in [[Eastern Europe]]. Dominion acquired the vote-rigging software when it purchased Sequoia Voting Systems from [[Smartmatic]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtGEBRRAC50</ref> which originally developed the software, and signed a non-competition agreement.<ref>[https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-smartmatic-are-not-actually-competitors/ Dominion/Smartmatic ‘Noncompete’ Agreement Emerges Despite Claims Of Being ‘Fierce Competitors’], Natalie Winters, ''National Pulse'', November 21, 2020.</ref>

All Dominion machines include a “weighted race feature” to fractionalize votes whose only purpose is to cheat in elections.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/dominion-voting-machines-include-weighted-race-feature-whose-purpose-cheat-elections-contacted-dominion-not-get-response/</ref> For example, the machine can be set to count a vote for Donald Trump as 0.7 of a vote while counting a vote for Joe Biden as 1.25 of a vote.<ref>https://youtu.be/7TLm0D9qvXA</ref>

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As of 2020, the equipment is used in 30 states in the [[United States]]. In the [[United States presidential election, 2020|2020 presidential election]], Dominion Voting Systems deleted 2.7 million votes for incumbent [[President Donald Trump]] nationwide. Data analysis found the voting systems switched 221,000 votes in [[Pennsylvania]] from President Trump to his rival, [[Democratic party|Democrat]] challenger former [[Vice President Joe Biden]]. 941,000 Trump votes were deleted. Other states using Dominion switched 435,000 votes from President Trump to Joe Biden, although liberals like to dispute it despite lots of evidence proving it did.<ref>https://thenewamerican.com/potus-dominion-voting-system-deleted-2-7-million-trump-votes/</ref> As suspicions arose, Dominion shuttered their [[Toronto]] and [[Denver]] offices, refused to testify before a Pennsylvania House committee,<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/dominion-cancels-planned-appearance-before-pennsylvania-lawmakers_3587425.html</ref> and at least 100 Dominion employees deleted their LinkedIn profiles.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/since-election-day-100-243-dominion-employees-linkedin-deleted-profiles/</ref><ref>https://gellerreport.com/2020/11/dominion-radicals-screenshots-of-their-scrubbed-linkedin-accounts.html/</ref> Dominion, a foreign corporation conducting American elections, issued a statement saying it was ‘not shuttering its offices’ and that ‘employees have been encouraged to work remotely and protect their social media profiles due to persistent harassment and threats against personal safety.’<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/24/fact-check-false-claim-voting-software-companies-have-closed/6393155002/ </ref> 'Working remotely' to conduct election rigging and interference is one of the allegations charged against Dominion machines.

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As of 2020, the equipment is used in 30 states in the [[United States]]. In the [[United States presidential election, 2020|2020 presidential election]], Dominion Voting Systems deleted 2.7 million votes for incumbent [[President Donald Trump]] nationwide. Data analysis found the voting systems switched 221,000 votes in [[Pennsylvania]] from President Trump to his rival, [[Democratic party|Democrat]] challenger former [[Vice President Joe Biden]]. 941,000 Trump votes were deleted. Other states using Dominion switched 435,000 votes from President Trump to Joe Biden, although liberals like to dispute it despite lots of evidence proving it did.<ref>https://thenewamerican.com/potus-dominion-voting-system-deleted-2-7-million-trump-votes/</ref> As suspicions arose, Dominion shuttered their [[Toronto]] and [[Denver]] offices, refused to testify before a Pennsylvania House committee,<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/dominion-cancels-planned-appearance-before-pennsylvania-lawmakers_3587425.html</ref> and at least 100 Dominion employees deleted their LinkedIn profiles.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/since-election-day-100-243-dominion-employees-linkedin-deleted-profiles/</ref><ref>https://gellerreport.com/2020/11/dominion-radicals-screenshots-of-their-scrubbed-linkedin-accounts.html/</ref> Dominion, a foreign corporation conducting American elections, issued a statement saying it was ‘not shuttering its offices’ and that ‘employees have been encouraged to work remotely and protect their social media profiles due to persistent harassment and threats against personal safety.’<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/24/fact-check-false-claim-voting-software-companies-have-closed/6393155002/</ref> 'Working remotely' to conduct election rigging and interference is one of the allegations charged against Dominion machines.

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In December 2020 a class action lawsuit on behalf of voters was filed against Dominion and other parties.<ref>https://dominionclassaction.com/m/login?r=%2Fhow-to-join</ref> The lawsuit was dismissed on November 22, 2021.<ref>https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/coloradopolitics.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/6/1c/61cb3194-4c0f-11ec-98ca-173de4a6304a/619c635f83d11.pdf.pdf</ref> The attorneys who filed the lawsuit were ordered to pay fees for those involved.<ref>https://www.coloradopolitics.com/courts/federal-judge-tells-lawyers-to-pay-up-in-dominion-voter-fraud-case/article_cdad92ee-4c0a-11ec-8359-f3aa5a763f47.html </ref><ref>https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-cod-1_20-cv-03747/context</ref> An appeal of this decision is pending.<ref>https://dominionclassaction.com/</ref>

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In December 2020 a class action lawsuit on behalf of voters was filed against Dominion and other parties.<ref>https://dominionclassaction.com/m/login?r=%2Fhow-to-join</ref> The lawsuit was dismissed on November 22, 2021.<ref>https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/coloradopolitics.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/6/1c/61cb3194-4c0f-11ec-98ca-173de4a6304a/619c635f83d11.pdf.pdf</ref> The attorneys who filed the lawsuit were ordered to pay fees for those involved.<ref>https://www.coloradopolitics.com/courts/federal-judge-tells-lawyers-to-pay-up-in-dominion-voter-fraud-case/article_cdad92ee-4c0a-11ec-8359-f3aa5a763f47.html</ref><ref>https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-cod-1_20-cv-03747/context</ref> An appeal of this decision is pending.<ref>https://dominionclassaction.com/</ref>

==Lawsuits Filed By Dominion<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/01/18/after-lawsuit-against-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-heres-who-dominion-and-smartmatic-have-sued-so-far-and-who-could-be-next/?sh=2350f0b612f6</ref> ==

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Dominion filed its first lawsuit in January against pro-Trump attorney [[Sidney Powell]], who has been the most prominent person spreading the fraud claims, seeking $1.3 billion in damages.

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Dominion filed suit against Trump attorney [[Rudy Giuliani]], alleging he used the conspiracy theory about ~~Dominion’s~~ machines to personally enrich himself while knowing the claims were false.

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Dominion filed suit against Trump attorney [[Rudy Giuliani]], alleging he used the conspiracy theory about Dominion's machines to personally enrich himself while knowing the claims were false.

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Dominion made similar allegations against [[Mike Lindell]], suing the businessman and his company in February and claiming the CEO sells the lie involving the ~~company’s~~ voting machines because the lie sells pillows.

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Dominion made similar allegations against [[Mike Lindell]], suing the businessman and his company in February and claiming the CEO sells the lie involving the company's voting machines because the lie sells pillows.

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Dominion sued [[Fox News]] in March alleging the network had knowingly spread false news about its machines to improve failing ratings, saying they had “set out to lure viewers back...by intentionally and falsely blaming Dominion” for President Donald ~~Trump’s~~ loss. Dominion settled its defamation lawsuit against Fox News on April 18, 2023, shortly before witness testimony was to start. ~~Dominion’s~~ lead attorney said at a news conference the settlement will pay the voting machine company $787.5 million. Dominion originally sued Fox for $1.6 billion in March 2021 for defamation, alleging the network pushed 2020 election fraud claims involving the ~~company’s~~ voting machines despite knowing they were false for financial gain. The judge presiding over the case had previously issued a summary judgment ruling that found ~~Fox’s~~ on-air claims about Dominion were false, but the trial was set to determine whether Fox had acted with “actual malice”.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/04/18/fox-news-settles-dominion-defamation-case-for-7875-million-dominion-lawyer-says/?sh=2246b7291509</ref>

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Dominion sued [[Fox News]] in March alleging the network had knowingly spread false news about its machines to improve failing ratings, saying they had “set out to lure viewers back...by intentionally and falsely blaming Dominion” for President Donald Trump's loss. Dominion settled its defamation lawsuit against Fox News on April 18, 2023, shortly before witness testimony was to start. Dominion's lead attorney said at a news conference the settlement will pay the voting machine company $787.5 million. Dominion originally sued Fox for $1.6 billion in March 2021 for defamation, alleging the network pushed 2020 election fraud claims involving the company's voting machines despite knowing they were false for financial gain. The judge presiding over the case had previously issued a summary judgment ruling that found Fox's on-air claims about Dominion were false, but the trial was set to determine whether Fox had acted with “actual malice”.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/04/18/fox-news-settles-dominion-defamation-case-for-7875-million-dominion-lawyer-says/?sh=2246b7291509</ref>

Dominion has identified more than 150 people as potential targets of litigation, and has sent letters to preserve evidence and warning of potential [[litigation]] to right-wing figures, including pro-Trump attorney [[Lin Wood]], Fox News anchors and Melissa Carone. The company sent letters to social media networks in [[February]] asking them to preserve posts from Trump and his campaign, as well as from Trump allies including former Trump advisor [[Michael Flynn]], Fox anchor [[Jeanine Pirro]], Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis and political commentator [[Dan Bongino]].

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Sworn testimony by an analyst of the 305th Military Intelligence about the 2020 presidential election reads,

{{quotebox-float|"this affidavit presents unambiguous evidence that Dominion Voter Systems and Edison Research have been accessible and were certainly compromised by rogue actors, such as [[Iran]] and [[PRC|China]]. By using servers and employees connected with rogue actors and hostile foreign influences combined with numerous easily discoverable leaked credentials, these organizations neglectfully allowed foreign adversaries to access data and intentionally provided access to their infrastructure in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent one in 2020. This represents a complete failure of their duty to provide basic cyber security. This is not a technological issue, but rather a governance and basic security issue: if it is not corrected, future elections in the United States and beyond will not be secure and citizens will not have confidence in the results."}}

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Cyber sleuths scanned Dominion network nodes and found a number of interrelationships with foreign entities, including access to ~~Dominion’s~~ server by a network from Hunan, China. Another forensic review confirmed links to an Iranian IP address, the analyst wrote, and concluded that the totality of “these scanning behaviors showed that foreign agents of aggressor nations had access to US voter lists, and had done so recently.”<ref>https://www.dickmorris.com/china-linked-bank-paid-dominion-400-million-four-weeks-before-the-election/</ref>

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Cyber sleuths scanned Dominion network nodes and found a number of interrelationships with foreign entities, including access to Dominion's server by a network from Hunan, China. Another forensic review confirmed links to an Iranian IP address, the analyst wrote, and concluded that the totality of “these scanning behaviors showed that foreign agents of aggressor nations had access to US voter lists, and had done so recently.”<ref>https://www.dickmorris.com/china-linked-bank-paid-dominion-400-million-four-weeks-before-the-election/</ref>

According to Gen. [[Tom McInerney]], servers were seized in [[Frankfurt, Germany]],<ref>https://youtu.be/30N5MVzJXJc</ref> where [[fraud]]ulent votes were being cooked up for [[Joe Biden]] during and after the [[2020 presidential election]]. The covert facility where these servers were being housed is run by the [[CIA]], and it is where elections all over the world are monitored and “cooked” to produce predetermined outcomes.<ref>https://nationalfile.com/the-kraken-retired-general-says-us-military-intel-group-nicknamed-kraken-seized-dominion-servers-in-germany/</ref>

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In February 2020, [[PBS]] noted that Dominion Voting Systems is a type of system that registers votes in bar codes that the human eye cannot read. The news source quotes researchers as saying: "Voters could end up with printouts that accurately spell out the names of the candidates they picked, but, because of a hack, the bar codes do not reflect those choices. Because the bar codes are what’s tabulated, voters would never know that their ballots benefited another candidate."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/reliability-of-pricey-new-voting-machines-questioned|author=Bajak, Frank - [[Associated Press]]|title=Reliability of pricey new voting machines questioned|date=23 February 2020|accessdate=24 November 2020}}</ref>

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''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' reported that in 2005 a concerned [[Florida]] election supervisor engaged a data-security expert to check the vulnerability of a Dominion Voting Machine. The expert hacked in, and by changing a few lines of code on the ~~machine’s~~ memory card, changed the results of a mock election. Although Dominion later insisted the vulnerabilities were fixed, the same expert said the fixes were insufficient.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-a-data-security-expert-fears-u-s-voting-will-be-hacked-11587747159|publisher=Wall Street Journal|title=Why a Data-Security Expert Fears U.S. Voting Will Be Hacked|author=Wolfe, Alexandra|date=24 April 2020|accessdate=24 November 2020}}</ref>

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''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' reported that in 2005 a concerned [[Florida]] election supervisor engaged a data-security expert to check the vulnerability of a Dominion Voting Machine. The expert hacked in, and by changing a few lines of code on the machine's memory card, changed the results of a mock election. Although Dominion later insisted the vulnerabilities were fixed, the same expert said the fixes were insufficient.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-a-data-security-expert-fears-u-s-voting-will-be-hacked-11587747159|publisher=Wall Street Journal|title=Why a Data-Security Expert Fears U.S. Voting Will Be Hacked|author=Wolfe, Alexandra|date=24 April 2020|accessdate=24 November 2020}}</ref>

All Dominion voting machines are connected to servers, including in foreign countries, using SolarWinds software. SolarWinds software links computer servers and devices (like voting machines) together and is used by numerous U.S. and state government agencies and large corporations.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/dominion-voting-machines-trying-hide-relationship-solar-winds/</ref>

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22. Dominion is one of three major companies that tabulates votes in the United States. Dominion uses the same methods and fundamentally same

software design for the storage, transfer and computation of voter identification data and voting data. Dominion and Smartmatic did business together. The software, hardware and system have the same fundamental flaws which allow multiple opportunities to corrupt the data and mask the process in a way that the average person cannot detect any fraud or manipulation. The fact that the voting machine displays a voting result that the voter intends and then prints out a paper ballot which reflects that change does not matter. It is the software that counts the digitized vote and reports the results. The software itself is the one that changes the information electronically to the result that the operator of the software and vote counting system intends to produce that counts. That’s how it is done. So the software, the software itself configures the vote and voting result -- changing the selection made by the voter. The software decides the result regardless of what the voter votes."<ref>https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580/gov.uscourts.gand.283580.6.14.pdf</ref>}}

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Expert Navid Keshavarz-Nia<ref>https://cybersummitusa.com/2017/06/navid-nia/</ref> explains that US intelligence services had developed tools to infiltrate foreign voting systems including Dominion. He states that ~~Dominion’s~~ software is vulnerable to data manipulation by unauthorized means and permitted election data to be altered in all battleground states.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/486105599/Affidavit-of-Dr-Navid-Keshavarz-Nia-Phd</ref> He concludes that hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump in the 2020 general election were transferred to former Vice President Biden. The chairman of the [[Federal Election Commission]], Trey Trainor, said there was voter fraud in key states. “The massive amounts of affidavits that we see in these cases show that there was in fact fraud that took place.”<ref>https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/federal-election-commission-chairman-trump-campaign-bringing-legitimate</ref>

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Expert Navid Keshavarz-Nia<ref>https://cybersummitusa.com/2017/06/navid-nia/</ref> explains that US intelligence services had developed tools to infiltrate foreign voting systems including Dominion. He states that Dominion's software is vulnerable to data manipulation by unauthorized means and permitted election data to be altered in all battleground states.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/486105599/Affidavit-of-Dr-Navid-Keshavarz-Nia-Phd</ref> He concludes that hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump in the 2020 general election were transferred to former Vice President Biden. The chairman of the [[Federal Election Commission]], Trey Trainor, said there was voter fraud in key states. “The massive amounts of affidavits that we see in these cases show that there was in fact fraud that took place.”<ref>https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/federal-election-commission-chairman-trump-campaign-bringing-legitimate</ref>

The design and features of the Dominion software do not permit a simple audit to reveal its misallocation, redistribution, or deletion of votes. First, the system's central accumulator does not include a protected real-time audit log that maintains the date and time stamps of all significant election events. Key components of the system utilize unprotected logs. Essentially this allows an unauthorized user the opportunity to arbitrarily add, modify, or remove log entries, causing the machine to log election events that do not reflect actual voting tabulations—or more specifically, do not reflect the actual votes of or the will of the people.

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After allegations emerged that called into question the integrity of voting machines produced by Dominion Voting Systems, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—part of the [[Department of Homeland Security]]—issued a statement on November 12, 2020 disputing the allegations, saying “the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.”. What the agency failed to disclose, however, is that Dominion Voting Systems is a member of ~~CISA’s~~ Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council, one of two entities that authored the statement put out by CISA.<ref>https://www.trevorloudon.com/2020/11/dominion-smartmatic-it-is-a-mess-here-are-some-top-details/</ref>

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After allegations emerged that called into question the integrity of voting machines produced by Dominion Voting Systems, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—part of the [[Department of Homeland Security]]—issued a statement on November 12, 2020, disputing the allegations, saying “the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.”. What the agency failed to disclose, however, is that Dominion Voting Systems is a member of CISA's Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council, one of two entities that authored the statement put out by CISA.<ref>https://www.trevorloudon.com/2020/11/dominion-smartmatic-it-is-a-mess-here-are-some-top-details/</ref>

Within two weeks after the vote rigging and [[election fraud]] was exposed, Dominion shuttered their [[Toronto]] and [[Denver]] offices, refused to testify before a Pennsylvania House committee,<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/dominion-cancels-planned-appearance-before-pennsylvania-lawmakers_3587425.html</ref> and at least 100 Dominion employees deleted their LinkedIn profiles.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/since-election-day-100-243-dominion-employees-linkedin-deleted-profiles/</ref>

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A supposed 'glitch' in software used to tabulate ballots in Antrim County, [[Michigan]], caused [[Republican]] votes to be counted as Democrat. The switch was first reported by a county clerk. A short investigation revealed that 47 counties in Michigan also suffered from a similar alleged 'glitch' with the same software, which caused some red counties to rake in a higher number of Democrat votes than usual. State GOP chair Laura Cox reported,<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/06/software-glitch-in-michigan-county-tallied-6000-republican-votes-as-democrat/</ref>

{{quotebox-float|“Antrim County had to hand count all of the ballots, and these counties that use the software need to closely examine their results for similar discrepancies. The people of Michigan deserve a transparent and open process.”}}

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Another example was uncovered in Oakland County, Michigan, where again a Republican won his race as a result of the alleged 'glitch' being reversed. An independent forensic audit of ~~Dominion’s~~ machines concluded:

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Another example was uncovered in Oakland County, Michigan, where again a Republican won his race as a result of the alleged 'glitch' being reversed. An independent forensic audit of Dominion's machines concluded:

{{quotebox-float|"the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail.... The allowable election error rate established by the [[Federal Election Commission]] guidelines is of 1 in 250,000 ballots (.0008%). We observed an error rate of 68.05%. This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity....These are not human errors; this is definitively related to the software and software configurations resulting in error rates far beyond the thresholds listed in the guidelines....It is critical to understand that the Dominion system classifies ballots into two categories, 1) normal ballots and 2) adjudicated ballots. Ballots sent to adjudication can be altered by administrators, and adjudication files can be moved between different Results Tally and Reporting (RTR) terminals with no audit trail of which administrator actually adjudicates (i.e. votes) the ballot batch. This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity because it provides no meaningful observation of the adjudication process or audit trail of which administrator actually adjudicated the ballots.<ref>https://www.depernolaw.com/uploads/2/7/0/2/27029178/antrim_michigan_forensics_report_[121320]_v2_[redacted].pdf</ref>}}

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{{Image Thumbnail right|File:Raffensperger2.png|200px|Raffensperger}}

:{{See also|2020 Democrat primaries#Dominion Election Systems}}

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Georgia Secretary of State, [[Brad Raffensperger]], announced the ~~state’s~~ purchase of a $106 million election system from Dominion Voting Systems in July 2019. In a lawsuit, which originated in 2017, critics contend that the new system was subject to many of the same security vulnerabilities as the one it was replacing.

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Georgia Secretary of State, [[Brad Raffensperger]], announced the state's purchase of a $106 million election system from Dominion Voting Systems in July 2019. In a lawsuit, which originated in 2017, critics contend that the new system was subject to many of the same security vulnerabilities as the one it was replacing.

In an October 11, 2020 order, just weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg agreed with the concerns associated with the new Dominion voting system, writing that the case presented “serious system security vulnerability and operational issues that may place Plaintiffs and other voters at risk of deprivation of their fundamental right to cast an effective vote that is accurately counted.”

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Hursti also noted that it appeared that Dominion personnel were the only ones with knowledge of, and access to, the Dominion server. As Hursti stated in his declaration, “In my conversations with Derrick Gilstrap and other Fulton County Elections Department EPC personnel, they professed to have limited knowledge of or control over the EMS server and its operations.”.

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Hursti noted that this wholesale outsourcing of the operation of voting equipment to the ~~vendor’s~~ personnel was “highly unusual in my experience and of grave concern from a security and conflict of interest perspective.”. Hursti referred to ~~Dominion’s~~ onsite operation and access as “an elevated risk factor.”.

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Hursti noted that this wholesale outsourcing of the operation of voting equipment to the vendor's personnel was “highly unusual in my experience and of grave concern from a security and conflict of interest perspective.”. Hursti referred to Dominion's onsite operation and access as “an elevated risk factor.”.

Hursti also noted that the Dell computers running the Dominion server appeared not to have been “hardened”—the process of “securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability.”. Hursti said that he found it “unacceptable for an EMS server not to have been hardened prior to installation.”.

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Hursti observed that computers used in ~~Georgia’s~~ system for vote processing appeared to have “home/small business companion software packages” on them. This raised areas of significant concern for Hursti as he noted: “[O]ne of the first procedures of hardening is removal of all unwanted software, and removal of those game icons and the associated games and installers alongside with all other software which is not absolutely needed in the computer for election processing purposes would be one of the first and most basic steps in the hardening process. In my professional opinion, independent inquiry should be promptly made of all 159 counties to determine if the Dominion systems statewide share this major deficiency.”

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Hursti observed that computers used in Georgia's system for vote processing appeared to have “home/small business companion software packages” on them. This raised areas of significant concern for Hursti as he noted: “[O]ne of the first procedures of hardening is removal of all unwanted software, and removal of those game icons and the associated games and installers alongside with all other software which is not absolutely needed in the computer for election processing purposes would be one of the first and most basic steps in the hardening process. In my professional opinion, independent inquiry should be promptly made of all 159 counties to determine if the Dominion systems statewide share this major deficiency.”

Hursti discovered that one of the computers had an icon for a 2017 computer game called “Homescapes”, which Hursti noted called into question whether “all Georgia Dominion system computers have the same operating system version, or how the game has come to be having a presence in Fulton’s Dominion voting system.”.

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Hursti noted that the lack of “hardening” created security risks even for computers that were not connected to the internet. He observed that when flash drives were connected to the server, the “media was automounted by the operating system. When the operating system is automounting a storage media, the operating system starts automatically to interact with the device.”.

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Hursti noted that the management of Fulton ~~County’s~~ EMS server appeared to be an “ad hoc operation with no formalized process.”. This seemed particularly apparent in relation to the process of storage media coming in from various precincts throughout the night: “This kind of operation i[s] naturally prone to human errors. I observed personnel calling on the floor asking if all vote carrying compact flash cards had been delivered from the early voting machines for processing, followed by later finding additional cards which had been overlooked in apparent human error. Later, I heard again one technician calling on the floor asking if all vote carrying compact flashes had been delivered. This clearly demonstrates lack of inventory management which should be in place to ensure, among other things, that no rogue storage devices would be inserted into the computer. In response, 3 more compact flash cards were hand-delivered. Less than 5 minutes later, I heard one of the county workers say that additional card was found and was delivered for processing. All these devices were trusted by printed label only and no comparison to an inventory list of any kind was performed.”

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Hursti noted that the management of Fulton County's EMS server appeared to be an “ad hoc operation with no formalized process.”. This seemed particularly apparent in relation to the process of storage media coming in from various precincts throughout the night: “This kind of operation i[s] naturally prone to human errors. I observed personnel calling on the floor asking if all vote carrying compact flash cards had been delivered from the early voting machines for processing, followed by later finding additional cards which had been overlooked in apparent human error. Later, I heard again one technician calling on the floor asking if all vote carrying compact flashes had been delivered. This clearly demonstrates lack of inventory management which should be in place to ensure, among other things, that no rogue storage devices would be inserted into the computer. In response, 3 more compact flash cards were hand-delivered. Less than 5 minutes later, I heard one of the county workers say that additional card was found and was delivered for processing. All these devices were trusted by printed label only and no comparison to an inventory list of any kind was performed.”

Hursti also observed that “operations were repeatedly performed directly on the operating system.”. The election software has no visibility into the operations of the operating system, which creates additional auditing problems, and as Hursti noted, “Unless the system is configured properly to collect file system auditing data is not complete. As the system appears not to be hardened, it is unlikely that the operating system has been configured to collect auditing data.”.

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====Remote access====

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Raising even greater concerns was the apparent “complete access” that Dominion personnel appeared to have into the computer system. Hursti observed Dominion technicians troubleshooting error messages with a “trial-and-error” approach which included access into the “Computer Management” application, indicating complete access in ~~Hursti’s~~ opinion.

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Raising even greater concerns was the apparent “complete access” that Dominion personnel appeared to have into the computer system. Hursti observed Dominion technicians troubleshooting error messages with a “trial-and-error” approach which included access into the “Computer Management” application, indicating complete access in Hursti's opinion.

As he stated in his declaration, “This means there are no meaningful access separation and privileges and roles controls protecting the county’s primary election servers. This also greatly amplifies the risk of catastrophic human error and malicious program execution.”

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===Statistical analysis===

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Analysis of November 3, 2020 election night data from all states showed that millions of votes were either switched from President Trump to Joe Biden or were lost using Dominion and other systems. Researchers compiled a full list of votes switched from Trump to Biden or votes erased by Dominion, the vote machines used in many states across the US. Data captured by the ''[[New York Times]]'' on election night was used.

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Electronic voting systems are used for the convenience of the vote counters, not the voters. Paper ballots are the only (less) foolproof method.

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In Michigan, for example, sworn affidavits claim paper ballots were run through tabulators several times;<ref>[[Michigan#Dominion.~~2FScorecard_fraud~~|Affidavits of Mellisa Carone]] and [[Michigan#~~Ineligible_ballots_were_counted_~~.E2.80.~~93_some_multiple_times~~|Patricia Rose]]</ref> and so the paper ballots do not even have a barcode to nullify the ballot once its been counted. Even grocery stores can detect with the barcode whether an item has been paid for or not.

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In Michigan, for example, sworn affidavits claim paper ballots were run through tabulators several times;<ref>[[Michigan#Dominion.2FScorecard fraud|Affidavits of Mellisa Carone]] and [[Michigan#Ineligible ballots were counted .E2.80.93 some multiple times|Patricia Rose]]</ref> and so the paper ballots do not even have a barcode to nullify the ballot once its been counted. Even grocery stores can detect with the barcode whether an item has been paid for or not.

Dr. [[Shiva Ayyadurai]] of [[MIT]], the inventor of [[email]], did another statistical analysis of voting integrity in Michigan during a video livestream presentation.<ref>https://youtu.be/Ztu5Y5obWPk</ref> Dr. Shyiva demonstrated statistically how an [[algorithm]] took about 60,000 votes away from President Trump and gave them to Joe Biden in Oakland County, Michigan during the course of election day. He demonstrated the same pattern in Macomb County.

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==Ownership==

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On July 16, 2018 Dominion Voting Systems announced that it had been acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital, a New York-based, private equity firm.<ref>https://archive.is/KNHK1#selection-725.0-756.0</ref><ref>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dominion-voting-systems-acquired-by-its-management-team-and-staple-street-capital-300681752.html</ref> Staple Street Equity was founded by former members of the [[George Soros]]-funded Carlyle Group. Executive Director of Carlyle Group, William Kennard, is director of Staple Street Capital.<ref>https://gellerreport.com/2020/11/look-who-owns-dominion-voting-systems-politically-motivated-private-equity-ny-hedge-fund.html/</ref>

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On July 16, 2018, Dominion Voting Systems announced that it had been acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital, a New York-based, private equity firm.<ref>https://archive.is/KNHK1#selection-725.0-756.0</ref><ref>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dominion-voting-systems-acquired-by-its-management-team-and-staple-street-capital-300681752.html</ref> Staple Street Equity was founded by former members of the [[George Soros]]-funded Carlyle Group. Executive Director of Carlyle Group, William Kennard, is director of Staple Street Capital.<ref>https://gellerreport.com/2020/11/look-who-owns-dominion-voting-systems-politically-motivated-private-equity-ny-hedge-fund.html/</ref>

Kennard was appointed [[FCC]] chairman during the [[Clinton administration]] and was appointed Ambassador to the [[European Union]] during the Obama era. “Team Obama literally bought the voting machines and software being used to count the votes in this [2020] election,” an independent media member noted.<ref>https://www.worldtribune.com/who-counted-the-votes-who-are-the-stakeholders-in-dominion-voting-systems/</ref>}}

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===Personnel, lobbyists and political donations===

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[[Federal Election Commission]] (FEC) records reveal the company is overwhelmingly staffed by [[Democrat]] donors.<ref>https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_employer=dominion+voting</ref> 96% of Dominion Voting political donations went to Democrats. From 2014 to 2020, nine individuals who list “Dominion Voting” or “Dominion Voting Systems” as their employer contributed money to national political campaigns, including the 2020 presidential election. Employees' positions span the entirety of the voting ~~system’s~~ process from set-up to tabulation, including software developers, network engineers, software production specialists, and implementation managers. Virtually all donations went to Democratic candidates through [[ActBlue]].

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[[Federal Election Commission]] (FEC) records reveal the company is overwhelmingly staffed by [[Democrat]] donors.<ref>https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_employer=dominion+voting</ref> 96% of Dominion Voting political donations went to Democrats. From 2014 to 2020, nine individuals who list “Dominion Voting” or “Dominion Voting Systems” as their employer contributed money to national political campaigns, including the 2020 presidential election. Employees' positions span the entirety of the voting system's process from set-up to tabulation, including software developers, network engineers, software production specialists, and implementation managers. Virtually all donations went to Democratic candidates through [[ActBlue]].

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Dominion has employed a host of [[Democratic Party]]-linked [[lobbyist]]s to assist on issues including “monitor[ing] federal legislation” and “issues related to election security.”<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2020&id=D000068717</ref> ''Bloomberg'' reported in April of last year [2019] that Dominion Voting Systems — which commands more than a third of the voting-machine market without having Washington lobbyists — has hired its first, a high-powered firm that includes a longtime aide to [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]]. They hired Brownstein Farber Hyatt & Schreck. Nadeam Elshami, ~~Pelosi’s~~ former [[chief of staff]], is one of the lobbyists on the account.<ref>https://noqreport.com/2020/11/06/dominion-voting-systems-the-company-at-the-center-of-michigan-and-georgia-voting-glitches/</ref> Dominion also employs Brian McKeon. According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'',

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Dominion has employed a host of [[Democratic Party]]-linked [[lobbyist]]s to assist on issues including “monitor[ing] federal legislation” and “issues related to election security.”<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2020&id=D000068717</ref> ''Bloomberg'' reported in April of last year [2019] that Dominion Voting Systems — which commands more than a third of the voting-machine market without having Washington lobbyists — has hired its first, a high-powered firm that includes a longtime aide to [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]]. They hired Brownstein Farber Hyatt & Schreck. Nadeam Elshami, Pelosi's former [[chief of staff]], is one of the lobbyists on the account.<ref>https://noqreport.com/2020/11/06/dominion-voting-systems-the-company-at-the-center-of-michigan-and-georgia-voting-glitches/</ref> Dominion also employs Brian McKeon. According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'',

{{quotebox|"…McKeon previously worked as a senior aide to Sen. [[Barbara Boxer]] (D-Calif.) and was a deputy director for voter protection for [[Obama for America]], helping oversee the effort to recruit and organize [[attorney]]s to be poll watchers in the [[United States presidential election, 2012|2012 election]]."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/09/07/shaheen-aide-heads-to-lobby-firm-with-senate-democrats-in-demand-on-k-street/</ref>}}

In 2014, Dominion was listed in the ''Washington Post'' table as having donated between $25,001-$50,000 to the [[Clinton Foundation]].<ref>https://archive.is/4Q24P</ref> Richard Blum, [[California]] Sen. [[Dianne Feinstein]]’s husband, is a significant [[shareholder]] in the company.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sidney-powell-people-with-links-to-powerful-democrats-using-dominion-voting-machines-to-steal-votes</ref>

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Similarly, the Department of Justice flagged the firm for

{{quotebox-float|“concerns that China Telecom is vulnerable to exploitation, influence, and control by the Chinese government” and how “the nature of China Telecom’s U.S. operations” provide “opportunities for Chinese state-actors to engage in malicious cyber activity enabling economic espionage and disruption and misrouting of U.S. communications.”<ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/executive-branch-agencies-recommend-fcc-revoke-and-terminate-china-telecom-s-authorizations</ref>}}

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Huang, who fulfills the critical technology role at Dominion, worked at the Chinese firm from 1998 to 2002. Tasks which Huang assisted with include the “Xiamen IDC Project,”, the “Xiamen Metropolitan-are broadband network,”, and the “OA Intranet infrastructure reformation project.”. While the specific nature of his work on these projects is not entirely clear, Cisco, a company he worked with extensively, is responsible for upholding ~~China’s~~ draconian internet firewall. ~~Huang’s~~ LinkedIn profile displays his employer as one of his “interests.”<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-techie-worked-for-ccp-military-proxy-flagged-by-u-s-govt-for-malicious-cyber-activity/</ref>

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Huang, who fulfills the critical technology role at Dominion, worked at the Chinese firm from 1998 to 2002. Tasks which Huang assisted with include the “Xiamen IDC Project,”, the “Xiamen Metropolitan-are broadband network,”, and the “OA Intranet infrastructure reformation project.”. While the specific nature of his work on these projects is not entirely clear, Cisco, a company he worked with extensively, is responsible for upholding China's draconian internet firewall. Huang's LinkedIn profile displays his employer as one of his “interests.”<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-techie-worked-for-ccp-military-proxy-flagged-by-u-s-govt-for-malicious-cyber-activity/</ref>

==Serbian Technology with Chinese Characteristics==

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Roaming Networks, a relatively unknown corporation based in [[Serbia]] run by oligarch Nenad Kovac,<ref>https://archive.is/nb22R</ref> was selected as the enterprise partner of [[Huawei]] (CCP) to install their technology into [[Eastern Europe]]. Roaming Networks:

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3) Built a large CCTV system in Belgrade for a “safe city project” using turnkey Huawei FTTx network equipment.

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~~Denmark’s~~ TDC Telecom also received a Huawei injection. Roaming enabled CCP-owned Huawei to run the Serbian nationwide transport network, including railways, electric power, and wind. Roaming built their own HQ data center using Huawei tech, and was rewarded with the design, implementation, and 24x7 maintenance of the [[Bank of China]]. Even the National Assembly of Serbia is now wired with Huawei. In 2017, they lost their license to operate in [[Denmark]].<ref>https://archive.is/7NEVm</ref>

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Denmark's TDC Telecom also received a Huawei injection. Roaming enabled CCP-owned Huawei to run the Serbian nationwide transport network, including railways, electric power, and wind. Roaming built their own HQ data center using Huawei tech, and was rewarded with the design, implementation, and 24x7 maintenance of the [[Bank of China]]. Even the National Assembly of Serbia is now wired with Huawei. In 2017, they lost their license to operate in [[Denmark]].<ref>https://archive.is/7NEVm</ref>

Dominion Voting Systems Corporation is located at OSMANA DJIKICA 18, 11060, Beograd Serbia.<ref>https://archive.is/hbB1B</ref> It is registered as a Computer Systems Design company. One of the software engineers is Ivan Yukovic, designing Election Management Systems (EMS) used in U.S. elections. Srjdan Nogo, a former Serbian Member of Parliament, identified connections between Serbian government, tech companies, George Soros, and the former VP Joe Biden.<ref>https://archive.is/yhrj8</ref> He confirmed Dominion used the Serbian company as their software design team. As he began writing about the US election and his discoveries about where the Dominion software was actually designed and maintained, Bojan Djordjevic, listed as the legal representative of the Serbian company, began responding to him and trying to explain.

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==Complaints==

[[File:Klobuchar and Warren.jpeg|right|200px|thumb|Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, who were defeated in the [[2020 Democrat primaries]], warned of Dominion vote switching and election fraud.]]

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Sens. [[Elizabeth Warren]] (Mass.), [[Ron Wyden]] (Ore.), and [[Amy Klobuchar]] (Minn.), along with Rep. [[Mark Pocan]] (Wisc.), wrote a joint letter to Dominion in December 2019 warning that use of the ~~company’s~~ voting machines resulted in “switching votes” and other “undisclosed vulnerabilities” that “threaten the integrity of our elections.”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democratic-senators-warned-of-potential-vote-switching-by-dominion-voting-machines-prior-to-2020-election</ref>

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Sens. [[Elizabeth Warren]] (Mass.), [[Ron Wyden]] (Ore.), and [[Amy Klobuchar]] (Minn.), along with Rep. [[Mark Pocan]] (Wisc.), wrote a joint letter to Dominion in December 2019 warning that use of the company's voting machines resulted in “switching votes” and other “undisclosed vulnerabilities” that “threaten the integrity of our elections.”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democratic-senators-warned-of-potential-vote-switching-by-dominion-voting-machines-prior-to-2020-election</ref>

{{quotebox-float|In 2018 alone "voters in [[South Carolina]] [were] reporting machines that switched their votes after they'd inputted them, scanners [were] rejecting paper ballots in Missouri, and busted machines [were] causing long lines in [[Indiana]]." In addition, researchers recently uncovered previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in "nearly three dozen backend election systems in 10 states." And, just this year, after the Democratic candidate's electronic tally showed he received an improbable 164 votes out of 55,000 cast in a Pennsylvania state judicial election in 2019, the county's Republican Chairwoman said, "[n]othing went right on Election Day. Everything went wrong. That's a problem." These problems threaten the integrity of our elections and demonstrate the importance of election systems that are strong, durable, and not vulnerable to attack.<ref>https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/H.I.G.%20McCarthy,%20&%20Staple%20Street%20letters.pdf</ref>}}

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13. I called the [[FBI]] and made a report with them, I was told that I will be getting a call back.<ref>https://youtu.be/uOwbJqPlXHI</ref>}}

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~~Carone’s~~ affidavit was included in the lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign that sought to stop the certification of Wayne ~~County’s~~ election results. Wayne County circuit judge Timothy M. Kenny denied the request. Judge Kenny described ~~Carone’s~~ allegations as ‘simply not credible’.<ref>https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/melissa-carone-michigan-dominion-debunked?s=r</ref>

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Carone's affidavit was included in the lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign that sought to stop the certification of Wayne County's election results. Wayne County circuit judge Timothy M. Kenny denied the request. Judge Kenny described Carone's allegations as ‘simply not credible’.<ref>https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/melissa-carone-michigan-dominion-debunked?s=r</ref>

==See also==

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==External ~~link~~==

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==External links==

*[https://www.dominionvoting.com/legal-updates-learn-how-we-are-defending-dominion/ Dominion Voting Systems Legal Updates]

*[https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/01/18/after-lawsuit-against-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-heres-who-dominion-and-smartmatic-have-sued-so-far-and-who-could-be-next/?sh=2350f0b612f6 Dominion Files Lawsuits Against Lindell and Others] ｜ Forbes – Jan 18, 2022

*[https://archive.is/hqNn2 Miles Guo : The Software for The U.S. President Election Was Supplied by The CCP] ｜ Daily Express – Nov. 12, 2020

*[https://youtu.be/746HTjhFifA Chanel Rion on “Dominion-izing the Vote”]

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*[https://youtu.be/0eNr2qoHKdQ Attention Dominion and ES&S; Sue me please. I volunteer to be sued!], Edward Solomon, January 26, 2021. ~~Youtube~~

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*[https://youtu.be/0eNr2qoHKdQ Attention Dominion and ES&S; Sue me please. I volunteer to be sued!], Edward Solomon, January 26, 2021. YouTube

*[https://rumble.com/vkygqa-must-see-damning-video-explaining-how-why-and-who-stole-election.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2 Damning Video Explaining How, Why And Who Stole Election]

*[https://tsarizm.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Serbia-China-Dominion-8.12.21.pdf Dominion: Serbian Technology With Chinese Characteristics]

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