generalspeaking: Dominion Voting Systems : "Restoring Our Good Names"

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Dominion Voting Systems : "Restoring Our Good Names"

"There are websites that have now been linked to Iran that call for the death of various election officials and our employees. We have some employees that have still not returned home, because there are [threatening] people who drive in front of their home every day."
"They're in hiding. We've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on security -- to help us get through this, to provide safety for our employees."
"[Even those working out of Dominion's Toronto office have been] harassed at their place of business, harassed at home ...threatened over telephone, by text and by email."
"They [Dominion's detractors] conflated a bunch of things about other companies and made it about us. I have no idea what the motivations were."
John Poulos, CEO, Dominion Voting Systems

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For Americans, in particular the huge number of U.S. citizens who voted for former President Donald Trump for re-election to a second term in office, the election was rigged. They know that of a certainty since Donald Trump himself for a year leading up to the November vote consistently and repeatedly announced that the election would be rigged, unfair and interfered with, to remove him illegally from office and bring in a Democratic rival. The millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump knew that even the election that brought him to the presidency had been rigged, but he won anyway.

This they know as well because the man himself, even after his 2016 investiture said time and again on social media platforms that he had in actual fact won the popular vote by a huge margin, but the win was stolen from him as a result of election fraud. He was the most-voted for, most popular president the United States ever had, and everyone should know that, since he himself contended that to be the case and if anyone should know it would be the president himself, despite being a modest, self-effacing man.

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So then, if the election was rigged there had to be a number of ways that skulduggery occurred to allow that to happen; election officials were involved, taking direction from foreign sources of influence, from members of Congress themselves linked to the Democratic Party that would stoop that low, of course. And then, there was Dominion Voting Systems, a technological system of registering and counting votes that had been deliberately programmed to discount Republican votes and switch them to the Democrats.

The very word "Dominion" became a curse in Republican circles, and none other than President Donald Trump led the incendiary demonization of a Canadian company that had made a name for itself in producing election technology that was swift, efficient and reliable, selling its product all over the world, including in various States of the Union. That 'stolen election' chose a symbol of deranged voting and Dominion was that symbol, that violated the U.S. voting system. After all, it's the honest and resolute word of a president.

The rage over that 'stolen election' fired up a mob of protesters to storm the U.S. Capital, with 75 percent of Republicans in general stating their belief in the electoral system having been perverted by deliberately malfunctioning election machinery. No fewer than 1,200 countries and 28 states have contracts with the company. But in the wake of this colossal slurring of his product the CEO of Dominion feels it will have a "massive" impact on his business. Poulos speaks of some states considering legislation barring his firm.

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"Frankly, there is no amount of money that's going to fix this problem for us, because our name will always have this against it", he said. Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory originated the allegations of a vast cabal of Democratic politicians investing in morbid practices that no sane person would give credit to and they embraced the Dominion conspiracy as well. Lacking evidence of any kind conservative news groups carried and amplified the allegations of voting corruption with Dominion right at its head. That the machines produced by Dominion flipped millions of votes from Trump to Biden.

Finally, the response by Dominion was to file a $1.3-billion libel lawsuit against Trump lawyer Sidney Powell who led the charge in the spread of unsubstantiated claims about the company. A list of Trump loyalists and media allies were placed on notice of potential future legal action by Dominion, among them Mike Lindell, My Pillow CEO, a confidante of Mr. Trump. In support of Dominion's decision to attempt to restore its reputation, allegations against it were debunked by media fact-checkers, dismissed by judges and elections administrators in both Republican and Democratic battleground states.

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Within the Trump administration itself Christopher Krebs, the Trump cybersecurity czar deemed the allegations unfounded -- and then was fired by the president. No evidence of widespread election fraud was evident, according to Attorney General William Barr, loyal cabinet secretary to President Trump whose resignation was shortly afterward accepted by the president.

"The question for us is that there has been irreparable damage done to our company. If we could trade our situation today and go back to our reputation of November 1 prior to the defamation campaign that Sidney Powell and others launched against our company, we would do so in a minute."
"This lawsuit is the first step to restore our good names. And we have over 300 families that have staked their livelihood and reputation on this company."
"Thousands more customers have also staked their reputation by choosing our technology and have been deploying it responsibly. So this lawsuit really represents our chance to fight all of these claims one by one in a proper process in a court of law."
John Poulos