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

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

'''Dominion Voting Systems''' is a [[Canadian]] company that sells voting hardware and software manufactured with [[Chinese]] components.<ref>https://youtu.be/5ZjLrgQDtCQ</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>   

'''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>

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>

As of 2020, the equipment is used in 30 states in the [[United States]].  In the [[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]] challenge former [[Vice President Joe Biden]]. 941,000 Trump votes for President Trump 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>  

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.

In December 2020 a class action lawsuit on behalf of voters was filed against Dominion and other parties.<ref>https://dominionclassaction.com/how-to-join</ref>

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>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

==Foreign actors==

==Foreign actors==

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Dominion voting system is a Canadian owned company with global subsidiaries.  It is owned by Staple Street Capital which is in turn owned by UBS Securities LLC, of which 3 out of their 7 board members are Chinese nationals. The Dominion software is licensed from Smartmatic which is a Venezuelan owned and controlled company. Dominion Server locations have been determined to be in Serbia, Canada, the US, Spain and Germany.  

Dominion Voting Systems is a Canadian-owned company with global subsidiaries.  It is owned by Staple Street Capital which is in turn owned by UBS Securities LLC, of which 3 of its 7 board members are Chinese nationals. The Dominion software is licensed from Smartmatic which is a Venezuelan-owned and controlled company. Dominion server locations have been determined to be in Serbia, Canada, the U.S., Spain, and Germany.  

[[NBC News]] reported in December 2019,

[[NBC News]] reported in December 2019,

{{quotebox-float|"Chinese manufacturers can be forced to cooperate with requests from Chinese intelligence officials to share any information about the technology and therefore pose a risk for U.S. companies, NBC News analyst Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director of the FBI for counterintelligence, said. That could include intellectual property, such as source code, materials or blueprints. There is also the concern of machines shipped with undetected vulnerabilities or backdoors that could allow tampering."<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/chinese-parts-hidden-ownership-growing-scrutiny-inside-america-s-biggest-n1104516</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|"Chinese manufacturers can be forced to cooperate with requests from Chinese intelligence officials to share any information about the technology and therefore pose a risk for U.S. companies, NBC News analyst Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director of the FBI for counterintelligence, said. That could include intellectual property, such as source code, materials or blueprints. There is also the concern of machines shipped with undetected vulnerabilities or backdoors that could allow tampering."<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/chinese-parts-hidden-ownership-growing-scrutiny-inside-america-s-biggest-n1104516</ref>}}

In January 2020 Dominion [[CEO]] John Poulos testified before Congress that Dominion machines are composed of parts manufactured in China from "screen on the interface down to the chip component level." Under questioning from Democrat Congresswoman [[Zoe Lofgren]], Poulos claimed, "there’s no option for manufacturing of those in the United States."<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-uses-chinese-parts/</ref>  The [[Chinese Communist Party]] endorsed [[Joe Biden]] for president in the 2020 presidential election.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-china-biden-russia-trump-election-2020-8</ref><ref>https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198289.shtml</ref>

In January 2020 Dominion [[CEO]] John Poulos testified before Congress that Dominion machines are composed of parts manufactured in China from "screen on the interface down to the chip component level." Under questioning from Democratic Congresswoman [[Zoe Lofgren]], Poulos claimed, "there’s no option for manufacturing of those in the United States."<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-uses-chinese-parts/</ref>  The [[Chinese Communist Party]] endorsed [[Joe Biden]] for president in the 2020 presidential election.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-china-biden-russia-trump-election-2020-8</ref><ref>https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198289.shtml</ref>

On Oct 8, 2020, Staple Street Capital filed [[SEC]] Form D offerings and sales amount of $400,000,000 with the Sales Compensation Recipient identified as UBS Securities. An earlier payment of $200,000,000 was received in December 2014.  UBS Securities is a [[Swiss]] investment bank which owns 24.99% of UBS Securities Co LTD, a Chinese Investment Bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities CO LTD is owned by the Chinese government.<ref>https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/parent-company-of-dominion-received-400-million-from-a-chinese-investment-bank-in-switzerland/</ref>

On Oct. 8, 2020, Staple Street Capital filed [[SEC]] Form D offerings and sales amount of $400,000,000 with the Sales Compensation Recipient identified as UBS Securities. An earlier payment of $200,000,000 was received in December 2014.  UBS Securities is a [[Swiss]] investment bank which owns 24.99% of UBS Securities Co LTD, a Chinese investment bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities CO LTD is owned by the Chinese government.<ref>https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/parent-company-of-dominion-received-400-million-from-a-chinese-investment-bank-in-switzerland/</ref>

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

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 ra