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Log InGo Ad-FreeNEWSPOLITICSENTERTAINMENTLIFEPERSONALVOICESSHOPPINGGAMESU.S. EditionOpen editions submenuPolitics2020 election2024 electionselon muskDominion 'Monitoring' Misinfo After Musk, MTG Revive Voting Machine Conspiracy TheoriesThe voting machine company reached a record-breaking settlement last year after suing Fox News for falsely claiming its machines were fraudulent.By Marco MargaritoffTrends ReporterOct 19, 2024, 05:45 PM EDTLEAVE A COMMENTLOADINGERROR LOADINGDominion Voting Systems released a pointed statement Saturday following remarks from billionaire Elon Musk and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who have reiterated debunked conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from Republican nominee Donald Trump.The electronic voting machine company reached a record-breaking settlement last year after suing Fox News for spreading disproven claims that its machines had facilitated ballot fraud in 2020. Dominion said Saturday that it is “closely monitoring claims around the 2024 election” that echo those allegations.Advertisement

“We strongly encourage people to rely upon verified, credible sources of election information - sources that can explain the many layers of physical, operational, and technical safeguards that exist to protect the integrity of our elections,” Dominion wrote in its statement.“We remain fully prepared to defend our company and our customers against lies, and to seek accountability from those who spread them,” the company added. Musk has thrown his full weight behind Trump. He promoted the false assertion that Dominion manipulated the election in 2020 at his first solo event to support Trump’s campaign on Thursday, insinuating without proof that “some very strange things” happened to people’s votes.Advertisement

“When you have mail-in ballots and no proof of citizenship, it becomes almost impossible to prove cheating, is the issue,” Musk said at a Pennsylvania town hall.“There’s always this question of, say, the Dominion voting machines,” Musk continued. “It is weird that, I think, they were used in Philadelphia and in Maricopa County [in Arizona] but not in a lot of other places. Doesn’t that seem like a heck of a coincidence?”Dominion — which also sued former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, along with other TV networks like Newsmax, for making defamatory claims about its machines — reacted strongly to Musk’s comments in a separate statement Friday to multiple media outlets. Advertisement

“Fact: Dominion does not serve Philadelphia County,” the statement said. “Fact: Dominion’s voting systems are already based on voter verified ballots. Fact: Hand counts and audits of such paper ballots have repeatedly proven that Dominion machines produce accurate results.“These are not matters of opinion. They are verifiable facts.”Separately, Greene — known for conspiratorial rhetoric, like her recent assertion that a shady “they” can “control the weather” — appeared on Alex Jones’ InfoWars network on Friday, where she claimed that a Dominion machine “changed” the ballot of a voter in her district. (Early voting began in Georgia in the 2024 presidential election earlier this week.) Musk held his first solo event in support of Trump and his campaign Thursday in Pennsylvania.Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesAdvertisement

An update on Dominion’s website Saturday clarified that officials from the county in question, Georgia’s Whitfield County, determined “voter error” was to blame in this particular instance and resolved the issue with the voter. The company reasserted that claims that its machines can change votes have “been repeatedly debunked.”Election officials, courts and Trump’s own administration have failed to produce evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. But promoting false claims that Democrats cheated and will cheat again is nonetheless a feature of Trump’s campaign.Go Ad-Free — And Protect The Free PressThe next four years will change America forever. But HuffPost won't back down when it comes to providing free and impartial journalism.For the first time, we're offering an ad-free experience to qualifying contributors who support our fearless newsroom. We hope you'll join us.You've supported HuffPost before, and we'll be honest — we could use your help again. We won't back down from our mission of providing free, fair news during this critical moment. But we can't do it without you.For the first time,  we're offering an ad-free experience. to qualifying contributors who support our fearless journalism. We hope you'll join us.You've supported HuffPost before, and we'll be honest — we could use your help again. We won't back down from our mission of providing free, fair news during this critical moment. But we can't do it without you.For the first time,  we're offering an ad-free experience. to qualifying contributors who support our fearless journalism. We hope you'll join us.Support HuffPostAlready contributed? Log in to hide these messages.More than a dozen people involved in the “fake electors” scheme to overturn the 2020 election are reportedly set to represent the Republican Party this year as Electoral College electors in battleground states, including Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.Advertisement

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Wonder if Dominion makes more from suing dumbasses saying dumb shit or selling voting machines.