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DENVER (AP) — Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories from President Donald Trump and his supporters since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official, the new company announced Thursday.

The newly formed company, Liberty Vote, also vowed to follow the executive order Trump signed last spring seeking sweeping changes to election policies that multiple judges have put on hold for violating the Constitution.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 74 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This effectively means that this company is openly hostile towards its own customers and may no longer be used for machines.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

Narrator: they still used the machines

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Electronic voting is a shitty, insecure system. There was nothing to invent; paper ballots should be the only valid way to vote.

https://youtu.be/LkH2r-sNjQs

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is not relevant here.

These are counting machines not connected to the internet

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's relevant anyway. The problems with electronic vote go far beyond that.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 weeks ago

Republicans know they'd be destroyed in the next elections, so they're fixing it with rigged machines patrolled by ICE agents.

You're going to have to do something else to get them out of office.

[–] sychthys@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was still holding on to at least being able to vote out enough of his supporters during the midterms that we might be able to block some of their insanity or even reverse one or two things during the back half of this election cycle, but I'm pretty sure that seals it up. That's the end of voting mattering, y'all.

Well done to all who voted for him for any reason, as well as those who could have voted and didn't. I hope you all experience everything this administration wants to do to those it deems as lesser than itself.

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Well, they guaranteed free and open elections where you could vote for the candidate of your choice. They Didn’t say anything about guaranteeing that the voting machines would be accurate.

So go ahead and vote. Vote for whoever you want. They are going to change the results anyway.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And just like putin, donny will win with 85% of the votes. Welcome to Russia Americans.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not over yet... So far, their wins have only come from people complying in advance

[–] Zier@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

True. We need to harass our States to not use Dominion machines in any elections.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. And on a related note, they're going by Liberty voting now

[–] HorikBrun@kbin.earth 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Check your state. This isn't the most up to date info, but these things change slowly, so...

https://secureourvote.us/certifiedmachines/

[–] original_charles@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A ton of the links on that website are dead. Is there more up to date information anywhere?

[–] HorikBrun@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can't find newer nationwide info, but I think each state can be searched individually.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Every governor needs to be going over their voting and tabulation systems with an atomic comb.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What would motivate the red states to actually do that tho, instead of just grifting everyone for election security funds, which enables them to say whatever they want?

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Red states would get dragged along as any problems were hammered out of Blue states. If someone points out a glaring security flaw in Dominion tabulators, it won't really matter who the governor is. Everyone will expect it to get fixed.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why though. Hostile takeover or just handover? They sued and won against the these duckers, why sell to them?

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

They sued and won, but I bet they still struggle to see hardware in half the country.