Dominion Voting Programs launched a pointed assertion Saturday following remarks from billionaire Elon Musk and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who’ve reiterated debunked conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The digital voting machine firm reached a record-breaking settlement final 12 months after suing Fox Information for spreading disproven claims that its machines had facilitated poll fraud in 2020. Dominion mentioned Saturday that it’s “closely monitoring claims around the 2024 election” that echo these allegations.
“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 assertion.
“We remain fully prepared to defend our company and our customers against lies, and to seek accountability from those who spread them,” the corporate 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 occasion to help Trump’s marketing campaign on Thursday, insinuating with out proof that “some very strange things” occurred to folks’s votes.
“When you have mail-in ballots and no proof of citizenship, it becomes almost impossible to prove cheating, is the issue,” Musk mentioned at a Pennsylvania city corridor.
“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 additionally sued former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, together with different TV networks like Newsmax, for making defamatory claims about its machines — reacted strongly to Musk’s feedback in a separate assertion Friday to a number of media shops.
“Fact: Dominion does not serve Philadelphia County,” the assertion mentioned. “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.”
Individually, Greene — recognized for conspiratorial rhetoric, like her latest assertion {that a} shady “they” can “control the weather” — appeared on Alex Jones’ InfoWars community on Friday, the place she claimed {that a} Dominion machine “changed” the poll of a voter in her district. (Early voting started in Georgia within the 2024 presidential election earlier this week.)
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An replace on Dominion’s web site Saturday clarified that officers from the county in query, Georgia’s Whitfield County, decided “voter error” was in charge on this explicit occasion and resolved the difficulty with the voter. The corporate reasserted that claims that its machines can change votes have “been repeatedly debunked.”
Election officers, courts and Trump’s personal administration have failed to provide proof of widespread fraud within the 2020 election. However selling false claims that Democrats cheated and can cheat once more is nonetheless a characteristic of Trump’s marketing campaign.
Greater than a dozen folks concerned within the “fake electors” scheme to overturn the 2020 election are reportedly set to signify the Republican Get together this 12 months as Electoral Faculty electors in battleground states, together with Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
