Posted on 01/15/2021 9:52:50 AM PST by Kevin C
We received a lengthy letter from Dominion's defamation lawyers explaining why they believe that their client has been the victim of defamatory statements. Having considered the full import of the letter, we have agreed to their request that we publish the following statement: American Thinker and contributors Andrea Widburg, R.D. Wedge, Brian Tomlinson, and Peggy Ryan have published pieces on www.AmericanThinker.com that falsely accuse US Dominion Inc., Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation (collectively “Dominion”) of conspiring to steal the November 2020 election from Donald Trump. These pieces rely on discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories about Dominion’s supposed ties to Venezuela, fraud on Dominion’s machines that resulted in massive vote switching or weighted votes, and other claims falsely stating that there is credible evidence that Dominion acted fraudulently. These statements are completely false and have no basis in fact. Industry experts and public officials alike have confirmed that Dominion conducted itself appropriately and that there is simply no evidence to support these claims. It was wrong for us to publish these false statements. We apologize to Dominion for all of the harm this caused them and their employees. We also apologize to our readers for abandoning 9 journalistic principles and misrepresenting Dominion’s track record and its limited role in tabulating votes for the November 2020 election. We regret this grave error.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And, my personal favorite: why are the machines’ logs not non-tamperable?
We regret telling O’Brien he had four fingers raised. We know in our hearts there were really five fingers like The Party said.
With respect to Dominion, I am sure they have and Non-disclosure agreement with the States to prevent releasing any details outside of a criminal investigation.
And there was an audit in MI where enough votes for Trump WERE recorded for Biden to give him the victory until this was caught and reversed.
While it is claimed that this mistake was due to human error, there are various logs and records missing (which by law are supposed to be retained) which make it impossible to confirm.
This report was submitted in court, and is currently the only legal evidence I am aware of which definitively proves Dominion Systems have changed enough votes to switch the winner from Trump to Biden.
Only the cause due to error or criminal intent is not known.
Were those votes switched by Dominion, or were they entered incorrectly by an election official in a spreadsheet or reporting program after the fact?
Wow, that describes more then half of the people in DC...
I don’t know anything about voting machines or Dominion, but I do trust the election supervisor and board of Coffey County GA. In a video widely shared on-line they were astounded that the Dominion voting machines allowed so much vote manipulation.
The expert testimony Judge Totenberg relied on, and her opinions, seem to provide a sufficient basis for some of the claims made regarding Dominion's systems to allow them to be repeated by members of the press without being considered "baseless allegations" or "false" or defamatory.
Judge Totenberg's opinion is available Here
No, they're not. They've been on the defensive ever since the allegations of vote manipulation first surfaced in these secondary media outlets.
And they ARE the primary entity being blamed for one aspect (the "vote switching") of the alleged fraud. I don't even know the name of any other company that sells voting machines and software other than Dominion, and that's only because I've seen their name dragged through the mud repeatedly in articles linked here on FR.
Fully agree. I left out the media, who totally gave up on whatever little ‘professionalism’ they can still claim and became 100% an extended mouthpiece of the Biden campaign. They literally not only propagated his message, but they also did two other things - they attacked President Trump’s administration non-stop for (literally) years, and they covered for any missteps made by the Biden campaign/personal history. The level of media bias is literally something half-a-library-of-books can be written about.
They have truth on their side. The problem is that Dominion has much deeper pockets and so can threaten financial rule unless American Thinker says exactly what they want them to say.
Why don't you read Judge Totenberg's opinion, which came after she heard testimony from Dominion's witnesses and other experts. And then tell me if you still think Dominion doesn't sell systems that provide for vote adjudication. Here's a tip - they most certainly do.
“I wonder why Dominion hasn’t sued Jovan Pulitzer yet.”
They may be working on it. Also, Sidney Powell has not folded despite being sued. Look at what she was able to do for Flynn with the entire 3 branches of the federal givernment working against her 24/7, and that doesn’t include their lying. Right now, she won’t be as easy as the on-line magazine.
The Constitution, of course, does not specify the media, Hollywood, Democrat activists,
Fox News, pollsters, or the Fortune 500 as determiners of our presidential election.
Americans have in place: (A) a rule of law, (B) specific legally prescribed mechanisms, and, (c) deadlines to move forward.
Of course they’re going on the offense. These are not countersuits as if people are bringing charges against them; they are practicing “lawfare” to silence people speaking out against the fraud and not just Dominion, bottom line.
By saying “seeing their name dragged through the mud” means you are emotionally invested in defending them. As it stands, Dominion ought to be indignant that their products were used for fraud and should be involved in discovery related to same.
What exactly did she do for Flynn?
I'm not being critical of her. I'm just recognizing that she had taken on a loser of a case from the start.
You are these discredited sources?
Only if you ignore the signed testimony under penalty of perjury of the person in Italy who flipped votes.
None of your alleged 'debunking' is under penalty of perjury. None of your alleged 'debunking' states any supporting facts, only weasel-word denials without names.
They aren't counter-suits because nobody has sued them (as far as I know).
The "lawfare" you describe is standard practice for anyone who anticipates filing a civil lawsuit and must be ready to demonstrate in a courtroom later that they had availed themselves of other legal remedies before filing the suit. It's one of the basic principles of civil litigation in every state I've worked.
In at least one case I recall....the hand-counted ballots gave one count but when put through the machine the ballots for Biden increased.
The officials redid the operation b/c they were in disbelief....but again the machine gave Biden more votes than the hand-counted ballots.
One explanation that surfaced:
Weighted vote tabulation is a feature of the Dominion system, which is determined by administrative settings. It is described in some of their user manuals.
That system counts votes as decimal numbers and rounds up the final totals so the batches balance.
I cannot imagine a legitimate use for this feature in a US election.
Is this used for anything else but to steal elections?
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