Dominion Voting Systems, which manufactures voting machines used across the U.S., says it is prepared to counter “lies” and “seek accountability from those who spread them” regarding its voting systems and election integrity following a revival of 2020 conspiracy claims from Elon Musk and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In the past few years, Dominion has been at the center of several election integrity conspiracy theories. In 2020, supporters of former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Dominion machines had “flipped” votes from Trump to President Joe Biden. Others claimed the machines deleted Trump votes altogether.
Despite the claims being repeatedly debunked, Representative Greene and tech billionaire Musk separately cast doubt on Dominion systems in speeches this week.
Dominion has filed dozens of lawsuits against individuals and media organizations that have spread the misinformation. Fox News settled one suit for $787.5 million.
Dominion Voting tabulator machines are shown in use for the Michigan primary election in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, Tuesday, February 27, 2024. On Saturday, Dominion Voting Systems called out “lies” about election integrity and clarified what happened in Georgia.
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In a Saturday update on its webpage titled “Setting the Record Straight: Facts About Dominion,” the company reiterated that the claim has been “repeatedly debunked.” It also noted that “a record-breaking 1.1 million voters in the state of Georgia” have cast their ballots using Dominion machines. Georgia is a key battleground state in the tight 2024 presidential election.
The update comes the day after Greene, a Trump loyalist, said during an interview with Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that “someone” saw their Trump vote change after casting a ballot on a Dominion machine this year in Georgia. She also wrote on social media that it happened in her district in Whitfield County, Georgia.
“They marked Donald Trump and they marked who they were voting for the rest of the way down their ballot on the machine,” Greene said. “When this voter printed their ballot and they looked, it had changed. It was not Donald Trump, it was not me and it was not the other ones they had voted for. It had switched.”
“So they had to start over, and they went through it several times and it kept on making the same error,” she continued. “It kept on switching the votes…. It sounds similar to what we heard in 2020.”
A Dominion spokesperson told Newsweek on Friday that the company “has been the target of ongoing defamation, including long-debunked claims” like the one Greene pushed on Friday.
In the Saturday update, Dominion wrote on its website, “The false claim that voting machines can switch votes has been repeatedly debunked. As both state and local election authorities have confirmed, the issue reported in Whitfield County was due to voter error. The county provided the voter with an opportunity to mark and print a new ballot with their correct choices and the issue was quickly resolved.”
Newsweek has reached out to Greene’s campaign for comment via email on Saturday.
Dominion is closely monitoring claims around the Nov. 2024 election and strongly encourages use of verified, credible sources of info. We remain fully prepared to defend our company & our customers against lies and those who spread them. Get the facts: https://t.co/5EzrG8vIlT.
— Dominion Voting (@dominionvoting) October 19, 2024
At his first solo event supporting Trump’s presidential campaign on Thursday, Musk responded to a question about election fraud, sarcastically remarking it must be a coincidence that Dominion voting machines were used in Philadelphia and Maricopa County, Arizona, two battleground states won by President Joe Biden in 2020.
Dominion issued a statement following the event, clarifying that its machines were not used in Philadelphia. “These are not matters of opinion. They are verifiable facts,” Dominion said in its statement.
Dominion voting systems are certified by the U.S. government.
