Dominion Voting Machines Are Used in Various States Despite Claims of Voter Fraud

Dominion Voting Systems has been around since the early 2000s and is regarded as "one of the fastest-growing tech firms in North America." Known for supplying voting machines, Dominion Voting Systems also provides a wide array of other services, including election set-up, ballot layout, and matching testing. After the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump accused Dominion of voter fraud, making it difficult for the company to continue with expansion.

Despite this, Dominion Voting machines are used in many states. Established in 2003, the company has been getting citizens in the U.S. and Canada through the voting process. Because of the accusations, Dominion Voting Machines even updated its website homepage to defend itself. Here's a breakdown of the states that use Dominion Voting machines and details on past litigations.

President Trump and his supporters have said that the voting systems in the U.S. are prone to fraud. On Nov. 12, 2020, prior to having his Twitter account suspended, Trump tweeted that Dominion's systems deleted 2.7 million of the votes in his favor during this year's presidential election.

"Data analysis finds 221,000 Pennsylvania votes switched from President Trump to Biden." Trump said. "States using Dominion Voting Systems switched 435,000 votes from Trump to Biden." Twitter flagged the tweet and said that it's "disputed."

Despite what Trump has said, there hasn't been any substantiated information to back up his claims. The New York Times reported that it contacted voting officials across the country. Each of the officials stated that there isn't any evidence of voter fraud.

An article by The New York Times stated that Dominion systems were used in two of five counties in Michigan and Georgia that had issues with voting. However, Dominion wasn't the cause of any of the issues. The issues were caused by "human errors" according to the article. It said, "In all of the cases, software did not affect the vote counts."

According to its website, Dominion Voting Systems serves more than 40 percent of the U.S. population. Its products are used in 28 states including New York, California, Nevada, Georgia, and Puerto Rico.

One device that Dominion makes called the ImageCast Precinct is a type of ballot-marking device. According to The Washington Post, these devices allow voters to vote using a touch screen. When they are done, the machine gives people a printout of their votes to feed into a scanner, which counts the votes. 

The article stated that these machines were used, in some way, in more than six states. Counties in both Colorado and Georgia used them but in completely different ways. Georgia paid $100 million for ballot-marking devices across the state. Since most people in Colorado voted by mail, these devices didn't get as much use in that state. 

Dominion Voting Systems was founded by John Poulos and James Hoover back in the early 2000s. Poulos serves as the company's CEO. In 2018, the company was acquired by Staple Street Capital, which is a private equity firm.

The board of directors for Dominion isn't fully available, but one member of the Staple Street Capital's board is William E. Kennard. He was nominated as ambassador to the European Union by former President Barack Obama in November 2009, according to his biography on Yale's website.

Following the 2020 presidential election, Dominion brought a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News Corporation for promoting false information suggesting the voting machine company "rigged" the election in favor of Joe Biden. Dominion said the claims had harmed its reputation and business.

Before the case could make it to trial, Fox abruptly offered to settle the matter for $787.5 million, bringing the case to a close on April 18, 2023.