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Posted on 11/17/2020 4:06:53 AM PST by gattaca
Election tech company Dominion Voting Systems is rebutting assorted claims of partisan bias and voting manipulation in the 2020 election, including rumors of a secret U.S. military raid on purported servers in Germany and ownership interests and other influence in the firm by prominent Democratic families. At the same time, Dominion has confirmed reports it made a donation to the Clinton Foundation and hired a former Nancy Pelosi staffer as a lobbyist.
Dominion has been at the center of a firestorm since Nov. 3, when its election management software, which is widely used across the country, led to an unofficial initial vote count misreporting Joe Biden as beating President Trump in Michigan's Antrim County when, according to election officials, the county clerk neglected to update software used to collect voting data from electronic tabulators.
In a lengthy, wide-ranging series of statements on its homepage, Dominion is rejecting claims made in the media and online by critics skeptical of the presidential results who fear that the firm is biased toward Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
Although Dominion did acknowledge that it made a philanthropic donation to a Clinton Global Initiative meeting in 2014, it also stated that the firm "has no company ownership relationships with any member of the Pelosi family, the Feinstein family, or the Clinton Global Initiative, Smartmatic, Scytl, or any ties to Venezuela."
Dominion also linked to a Nov. 10 Associated Press report downplaying reports of ties between the election technology firm and prominent Democrats. While acknowledging that it is true that former Pelosi Chief of Staff Nadeam Elshami "is part of a lobbying team representing Dominion, according to public disclosures," the AP dismissed any partisan significance in that connection, noting "that team also includes Brian Wild, who counts Republicans such as former House Speaker John Boehner and former Vice President Dick Cheney among his past bosses."
Dominion also swatted down any claims of "raids" on Dominion servers by the U.S. military, saying that the company does not have servers in Germany.
Allegations against the company could escalate, given claims by an attorney on the Trump campaign election integrity legal team that forthcoming evidence shows the presidential vote count was manipulated using technology from Dominion, a claim the firm soundly rejects.
Attorney Sidney Powell alleged in media interviews that Dominion was used to obtain a "rigged" outcome for Biden over Trump.
Appearing Sunday on Sinclair's "America This Week with Eric Bolling," Powell said her team had uncovered "mathematical alterations to the votes."
"It's a feature of the system that was designed with a backdoor, so that people could watch, in real time, and calculate with an algorithm how many votes they needed to change to make the result they wanted to create," Powell told Bolling. "It's incredibly disturbing, and we will hopefully have evidence of it before the end of the week that we can produce publicly."
Powell, who has been lead counsel in more than 500 appeals in the Fifth Circuit, also represented Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security advisor, who won a powerful legal victory earlier this year when the U.S. Justice Department recommended a federal judge reverse Flynn's conviction and drop criminal charges, a stunning reversal in a case that became a powerful symbol of FBI misconduct in the Russia investigation. The government said revelations from evidence withheld from the court for years warranted the dramatic recommendation.
In its statements on its homepage, Dominion rejected the substance of Powell's claims without naming her.
"Dominion Voting Systems categorically denies false assertions about vote switching issues with our voting systems," the homepage stated. "No credible reports or evidence of any software issues exist. Dominion equipment is used by county and state officials to tabulate ballots. Human errors related to reporting tabulated results have arisen in a few counties, including some using Dominion equipment, but appropriate procedural actions were made by the county to address these errors ... prior to the canvass process."
Democratic leaders of Congress warned last year in a series of letters that election technology companies such as Dominion Voting Systems were "prone to security problems," a result of them having purportedly "long skimped on security in favor of convenience."
The allegations were detailed in a series of letters sent in December 2019 by Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Amy Klobuchar, along with Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan.
Dominion Voting Systems President and CEO John Poulos testified in January of this year about election security issues before the House Administration Committee. "The voting systems that we produce provide high assurance that election outcomes are accurately and reliably tallied," Poulos said in his written testimony. "All Dominion systems fully-support independent, third-party audits, and reviews of election data."
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Dominion CEO Poulos House Testimony Jan. 2020.pdf
Poulos said Dominion has annual, mandatory background checks and cybersecurity awareness training for all employees and has adopted multiple layers of protection "spanning user endpoints, network and systems infrastructure and cloud systems, along with multi-factor 2 authentication. We conduct continuous vulnerability scanning on our company network and utilize third-party services for threat hunting and breach detection."
Poulos also testified that his Dominion staff "actively engage" with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and "other trusted, third-party advisors to enhance and maintain our physical and cyber security posture."
Dominion also works closely with federal, state and local government partners, Poulos testified, to conduct coordinated emergency drills, tabletop exercises and routine information-sharing as a member of the DHS Sector Coordinating Council for Election Infrastructure.
"Through these efforts, Dominion has refined our company's situational awareness and strengthened our procedures for handling incidents and emergencies," Poulos said.
A Homeland Security webpage called "Rumor Control," created by DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after the November election, rejected as "rumor" the claim that "a bad actor could change election results without detection."
"The systems and processes used by election officials to tabulate votes and certify official results are protected by various safeguards that help ensure the accuracy of election results," the DHS. These safeguards include measures that help ensure tabulation systems function as intended, protect against malicious software, and enable the identification and correction of any irregularities."
Dominion also swatted down any claims of "raids" on Dominion servers by the U.S. military, saying that the company does not have servers in Germany.
I don't know anything about those other than the small tidbits I have read here. But the broader issue is not whether they enabled cheating in some specific way alleged by some crackpot. The real problem is we are not allowed to recount votes with unbiased counters (by hand) and compare them to running through the machine. That's not happening in Georgia and doesn't look like it will happen anywhere. The fix is in.
For decades (see the Collier brothers & their book VoteScam) any discussion of paper ballots has been rejected by the Uniparty, and now we know why. Any discussion of the Georgia runoff without discarding the Dominion system is a waste of time.
Of course they would deny everything but they are not addressing all the “glitches” being discovered. The main culprit in this mess are the illegal mail in ballots. Ballot Harvesting occurred in Philly and is now taking place in GA lead by the Skank Abrams. Throwing out the illegal ballots would flip PA and probably MI. But will the courts do that?
Dominion Voting Systems President and CEO John Poulos testified in January of this year about election security issues before the House Administration Committee. "The voting systems that we produce provide high assurance that election outcomes are accurately and reliably tallied," Poulos said in his written testimony. "All Dominion systems fully-support independent, third-party audits, and reviews of election data."
Ok... well that settles it then. What I get out of this is that these folks are totally doggone confident that they can cheat and then change things on the fly afterwards as they need to so that they don't get caught.
isn’t it the Scytl servers in Germany, not Dominions.
FakeNewsMSM/Dominion want to downplay Dominion connections to the Clintons. However, there’s always The Delian Project!
23 Jan 2014: Kaieteur News Guyana: Guyana mulls introduction of automatic ballot counting system
According to GECOM, on Monday, a team of the DELIAN Project, an independent, non-profit organization registered in Canada, and the United States of America, met with its officials and conducted a demonstration on the use of automatic ballot scan and tabulation technology.
The DELIAN team comprised ***Jean-Pierre Kingsley, Chief Executive Officer of the International Foundation of electoral systems and currently Chairman of the DELIAN’s Advisory Board. He has served as the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada from 1997 to 2010. The team also included John Hollins, Chairman of the DELIAN Board of Directors, who was Chief Electoral Officer for the Province of Ontario form 2001 to 2008, and Allan Best, Managing Director.The DELIAN Project was created in 2011 as a philanthropic entity by the Canadian elections technology firm, Dominion Voting Systems (DVS). The Project procures and donates electoral technology to emerging and growing democracies.
DELIAN is a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact, ***and recently joined the Clinton Global Initiative...
https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2014/01/23/guyana-mulls-introduction-of-automatic-ballot-counting-system/
Wikipedia: Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Jean-Pierre Kingsley is a Canadian civil servant and businessman who served as the President and CEO of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. He was the Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada, before he stepped down in December 2006...
He served as head of the international team observing the Iraqi legislative election, January, 2005...
***As of NOVEMBER 2020***, Kingsley serves as the Chairman of the Executive Advisory Committee for Dominion Voting Systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Kingsley
I’m thinking, if Dominion voting machines are manufactured, loaded with software/firmware outside the U.S. and have ANY political leanings one way or the other, they should never have been used in an American election.
No way, no how. That’s insane!
there are those who say The Delian Project was just a 2014 thing. found the following by accident, written by no-one in particular, & not a Trump fan...but a few interesting bits nonetheless:
7 Nov 2016: Straight.com: Homeless in Vancouver: Charges of U.S. vote rigging will likely involve Canadian voting machines
by Stanley Q. Woodvine
If Republican Donald Trump loses the U.S. presidential election to Democrat Hillary Clinton on Tuesday (November 8), don’t be surprised if he and his supporters turn around and blame Canada.
That’s because the Trump camp feverishly believes that Clinton has the diabolical power to control the electronic voting machines used in 58.8 percent of U.S. states.
And it just so happens that something near a majority of the electronic voting machines used in the U.S. are Canadian-made—by Toronto-based Dominion Voting Systems, or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries: Diebold/Premier or Sequioa...
As this (easier-to-read than the Clinton Foundation’s own site) Washington Post table of Clinton Foundation donors shows, the foundation has received donations linked indirectly and directly to two company involved in electronic voting: Texas-based Hart InterCivic and Toronto-based Domininon Voting...
Dominion Voting is listed in the Washington Post table as having donated between (US)$25,001-(US)$50,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2014.;;
The Clinton Foundation describes the DELIAN Project as a three-year initiative (2014-2017) to provide emerging and postconflict democracies with free Automated Voting Machines (AVMs)—specifically, Dominion-donated ImageCast Precinct Optical Scan Tabulators (ICP-322s)—as well as training...
The Clinton Foundation says the AVMs being donated by Dominion to DELIAN have been used in large jurisdictions such as Canada, the United States, the Philippines, and Mongolia. Dominion Voting says that, over 100,000 ImageCast Precinct tabulators are “deployed” worldwide...
I don’t know about today, but back in 2005, the City of Vancouver used an AccuVote optical scanner/tabulator for municipal elections that was manufactured by Vancouver-based Global Election Systems. As of 2002 Global had been acquired by Diebold and the technology is now owned by Dominion Voting.
I also don’t know how Dominion’s tax-deductible donations to the Clinton Foundation could possibly implicate it in throwing the U.S. election for Hillary Clinton.
How a Canadian company gained dominion over U.S. voting
Dominion Voting has gained a rather dominant position in the electronic voting hardware market the old-fashioned way—by buying out its competitors.
In May of 2010 Dominion Voting acquired all the physical and intellectual property assets of Ohio-based Premier Election Solutions, which was the 2007 rebranding of Diebold Election Systems. Inc. And then, the very next month, in June of 2010, Dominion bought California-based Sequoia Voting Systems...
No matter how you slice the numbers, it’s likely that a majority (and quite likely a huge majority) of all the electronic voting machines in the United States are from Dominion Voting and its wholly-owned subsidiaries.
Dominion Voting was founded in Canada in 2002. This just happened to be the same year that U.S. president George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) into law...
So arguably, the only new thing about Republican Donald Trump and his supporters crying that the 2016 election is rigged is how early they started crying.
Personally, I’d be more concerned with the fact that, according to Wired magazine, a majority of the states’ electronic voting machines are old enough to be running the incredibly insecure Windows XP operating system (like Pennsylvania’s for example).
Trump should blame himself if he loses...
https://www.straight.com/blogra/823596/homeless-vancouver-charges-us-vote-rigging-will-likely-involve-canadian-voting
I agree. Dominion and Smartmatic are both located outside the United States. Smartmatic’s holding company in London is called SGO Corporation Limited and for the past 6 years, its chairman of the board has been Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, a former Labour Party politician with strong ties to far-left billionaire activist George Soros.
Ping for later...
My question is why the eff are we using closed source software to count votes? It should have been rejected from the get go -- this is a fraud magnet.
Something open source, like this, may be a viable alternative to this fraudulent Dominion crap.
I hope Dominion goes down in flames -- their weak defense of themselves by quoting Associated Press "fact checkers" is laughable.
.....................led to an unofficial initial vote count misreporting Joe Biden as beating President Trump in Michigan’s Antrim County when, according to election officials, the county clerk neglected to update software used to collect voting data from electronic tabulators.
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Unbelievable. They just admitted that it is possible to change to vote!!!! How many other machines in different state failed to update the software???????
Re:Dominion also swatted down any claims of "raids" on Dominion servers by the U.S. military, saying that the company does not have servers in Germany
Sidney Powell has sources who have told her otherwise.
See also.....and pay attention to the Louis Gohmert video.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/us-raid-software-company-scytl-seize-servers-germany-intel-source-says-yes-happened/
http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/update-us-military-raid-german-computer-co-linked-to-our-election
https://naebc.com/2020/11/17/did-dominion-and-scytl-software-change-the-election-outcome/
It’s all over. Over.
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