Our position is that Dominion is the government, for purposes of the First Amendment. In preparing for this November's election, the . It uses light pressure switches and may be equipped with a pneumatic switch, commonly known as "sip-n-puff", or a set of paddles. On December 1, Trump-hired attorney Lin Wood first revealed that China bought Dominion for $400 million. [4][5] Dominion voting machines have been used in countries around the world, primarily in Canada and the United States. Fox News continues to be exposed for the dishonest organization that it is this time, with the help of its billionaire owner. Fox targeted Dominion's private-equity owner in an unredacted counterclaim to Dominion's request . As a U.S.-owned company, we currently provide voting systems and services to jurisdictions across 30 states and Puerto Rico. When a marked paper ballot is inserted, the tabulator screen display messages indicating whether the ballot has been successfully input. 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. Michigan Circuit Court judge Timothy Kenny had previously ruled that an affidavit Carone had filed was "simply not credible. "[102], Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis, on June 6, 2022, denied a motion from Newsmax to dismiss Dominion's case against them. Find the requirements for filing for office and filing campaign finance statements. GROSS ANNUAL SALES FOR THE LAST THREE FISCAL YEARS: $51.6 (2010) In a deposition, Hannity said: That whole narrative that Sidney was pushing, I did not believe it for one second. [20][21], Dominion Voting Systems Corporation was founded in 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by John Poulos and James Hoover. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning), Machine Tools, Metalworking and Metallurgy, Aboriginal, First Nations & Native American. Staple Street bought Dominion Voting Systems for an undisclosed amount in July 2018. Both of these claimsarefalse. Two additional days of functional testing on "[83], On February 16, 2021, Dominion announced that they would be filing a lawsuit against Lindell in response to OANN airing a program by Lindell titled Absolute Proof that repeated his false claims about the 2020 election. Hahahaha. [17][18], In court documents, Dominion's legal team, out of "professional courtesy", stated that they would not oppose the request of Powell's legal team for more time to prepare, but noted that she had "evaded service of process for weeks", forcing them to "incur unnecessary expenses" to serve her with the lawsuit. Dominions defamation case is being described as a landmark. Despite a rash of unsubstantiated claims lobbed against his company, the CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, John Poulos, has remained largely silent. [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. Dominion Voting Systems is out for blood in its defamation case against Fox News. I give them cases, and I suggest First Amendment theoriesmy role is limited to advising on the First Amendment issues at hand. "[101] As evidence of harm, he stated: "MyPillow employees have been subjected to ridicule in their personal lives, and death threats necessitating protection from local law enforcementemployees are subjected to daily hateful and barbaric calls, emails, and comments on the company's social media platforms. Murdoch also said he could have given the order for Fox News not to platform Trumps lawyers. [53][54] Giuliani also falsely asserted that Dominion voting machines sent their voting data to Smartmatic at foreign locations and that it is a "radical-left" company with connections to antifa. The voting-systems company has deposed Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and more, raising the stakes in its sprawling $1.7 billion defamation lawsuit. My name is John Poulos, and I am the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion Voting Systems is not messing around. Dominion provides election equipment and software to 28 states, including many of the swing states on which Trump has focused his post-election ire. [92] A Fox News motion to dismiss the suit was denied on December 16, 2021, by a Delaware Superior Court judge. [49], Following the 2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, his attorneys, and other right-wing personalities amplified the unfounded rumors originated by the proponents of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems had been compromised, supposedly resulting in millions of votes intended for Trump either being deleted or going to rival Joe Biden. Should we care? Kirkland & Ellis LLP and McMillan LLP advised Staple Street Capital. "[99], On April 12, 2022, Delaware state court judge Eric Davis scheduled the date for the jury trial for the defamation lawsuit against Fox News to begin on April 17, 2023, and set aside five weeks for proceedings. [102] Nichols ruled Lindell's claims were groundless and frivolous, and partially granted Smartmatic's motion for sanctions and fees against Lindell and his legal team for filing the suit, with the amount to be decided later. 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. Staple street is the majority owner of Dominion. Beyond this video, other posts on social media have linkedChvezand Dominion. He says it won't be close. "Hugo Chvez is dead, but his family owns this. [31], ImageCast X is described as an accessible ballot-marking device that allows a voter to use various methods to input their choices. "I tuned in thinking this was going to be a joke my laughter turned from laughter tostraight anger and disgust with our state. The employee received death threats as a result, and a noose was found hanging outside his home. Calling . Inc. and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation are wholly owned subsidiaries of US Dominion, Inc.11 Defendant Fox is a Delaware LLC with its principal place of business in New York.12 | Margaret Sullivan, How Dominion Voting Systems filing proves Fox News was deliberately lying, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. [1] This equipment includes the DVS ImageCast Evolution (ICE), ImageCast X (ICX), and ImageCast Central (ICC). Topline. It started out as a Canadian company and was later incorporated in the United States; it now has offices in Denver and Toronto. 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. Dominion systems are employed in Canada's major party leadership elections, and they are also employed across the nation in local and municipal elections. Herring Networks, the OAN parent, will plead constitutional free-speech protections to stave off a $1.6 billion lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems . She went on to say that the continuing lies have resulted in continued threats of violence against the company. The details were included in a trove of private communications unearthed by lawyers and contained in a redacted brief filed Thursday by Dominion Voting Systems. Given the opportunities on our horizon, this is the ideal time for us to add financial resources and an experienced strategic partner to help us meet market demand, better serve customers and invest in evolving security initiatives. John Bazemore/AP. [51], Trump and others also made unsubstantiated claims that Dominion had close ties to the Clinton family or other Democrats. [43] The Progressive Conservatives and the People's Alliance of New Brunswick called for a hand count of all ballots. Sign up here to start receiving our newsletter. Election Systems & Software (ES&S) is an Omaha, Nebraska-based company that manufactures and sells voting machine equipment and services. "[96] It also reported that Dominion has "sent letters to preserve evidence and warning of potential litigation to right-wing figures including pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood and Melissa Carone, who Giuliani has promoted as a witness to supposed voter fraud efforts. [83] The suit against Powell had been filed on January 8, 2021, but those employed by Dominion were only able to serve her the summons on January 28, 2021. 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." from 8 AM - 9 PM ET. (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. [33][failed verification], The Election Management System (EMS) includes a set of applications that handle pre- and post-voting activities, including ballot layout, programming media for voting equipment, generation of audio files, importing results data, and accumulating and reporting results. [48] The affected municipalities extended voting times to compensate for the glitch; most prominently, the city of Greater Sudbury, the largest city impacted by the cap, extended voting for a full 24hours and announced no election results until the evening of October 23. [14][15], After questions about the reliability of the company's systems surfaced during the election, Edward Perez, an election technology expert at the Open Source Election Technology Institute stated, "Many of the claims being asserted about Dominion and questionable voting technology is misinformation at best and, in many cases, they're outright disinformation. Even Murdoch himself dismissed Trumps claims, describing the former presidents obsession with proving the election was stolen as terrible stuff damaging everybody. Namely, the link between Dominion and China was not as straightforward as Wood first claimed. [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. [103] On June 21, 2022, Judge Davis also denied Fox Corporation's motion to dismiss the suit by Dominion Voting Systems. [69] Coomer asserted they had characterized him as a "traitor" and that as a result he was subjected to "multiple credible death threats". [110] By July 13, 2022, Kleinhendler withdrew from the team. More information: www.staplestreetcapital.com. 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. [64][65] Eric Coomer, Dominion's director of product strategy and security, went into hiding soon after the election due to fear for his and his family's safety. "[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. That's all I'm willing to say." [6] Dominion's role in this regard led supporters of then-President Donald Trump to promote conspiracy theories about the company's voting machines, following Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the election. 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. [11][12] Smartmatic also demanded a retraction from Newsmax, which had also promoted baseless conspiracy allegations about the company and Dominion, and on December 21 a Newsmax host acknowledged the network had no evidence the companies had a relationship, adding "No evidence has been offered that Dominion or Smartmatic used software or reprogrammed software that manipulated votes in the 2020 election." election amid vote-counting problems", Thirty-Eighth General Election September 22, 2014, "Elections NB to blame for delayed results, tabulator company says", "Ontario's experiment with vote-counting machines could change elections to come", "Elections Ontario has 'utmost confidence' in new vote-counting machines but also has backup plan", "Bandwidth glitch delays Sudbury's municipal election", "Voting times extended in several Ontario municipalities due to online voting glitches", "Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers' Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows", "US election 2020: Is Trump right about Dominion machines? Dominion Voting CEO and President John Poulos said, "Our senior management team is extremely pleased to partner with Staple Street Capital, which has a proven track record of successfully investing in growing mid-size businesses. [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." [11][12][13][14] In January 2021, Dominion filed defamation lawsuits against former Trump campaign lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, seeking $1.3 billion in damages from each. [13] Dominion sent a similar letter to former Trump attorney Sidney Powell demanding she retract her allegations and retain all relevant records; the Trump legal team later instructed dozens of staffers to preserve all documents for any future litigation.