Does the sale of Dominion Voting Systems mean a transformation? Depends who's asking
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When Scott Leiendecker announced he was buying Dominion Voting Systems — the elections technology company at the heart of countless 2020 election conspiracy theories — he teased a transformation.
"As of today, Dominion is gone," read the first line of a press release that seemed to many readers to lean into the unfounded rumors that have swirled around the company (and led to hundreds of millions of dollars in defamation settlements) since Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election.
"We are turning the page and beginning the vital work of restoring faith in American elections," Leiendecker wrote in a public letter posted on the website for his new company, Liberty Vote.
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But in private, when speaking to the company's county election official customers, the messaging has been different, raising
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