Dominion Voting Systems offered to testify before the Michigan state Senate in an effort to debunk voter fraud allegations about its operations and voting machines.
John Poulos, the CEO of the company, sent a letter to Senate Oversight Committee Chairman Ed McBroom, a Republican, on Wednesday, thanking him for offering the opportunity to have a company representative testify Tuesday or Wednesday about “the continuing malicious and widespread disinformation campaign” against Dominion, according to the missive, which was obtained by the Detroit Free Press.
“I appreciate the opportunity to correct the baseless and defamatory claims being made about our systems. They are harmful not only to Dominion, but also to the countless hardworking election officials across the State, as well all Michigan public officials elected through a fair process,” Poulos said.
The company has been in the crosshairs of President Trump’s legal team and other Republican groups, particularly after a problem attributed to human error in Michigan’s Antrim County resulted temporarily in 6,000 votes erroneously being tabulated for President-elect Joe Biden rather than Trump.
Prior to the letter sent on Wednesday, Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Matt Hall stated that the company had not gotten back to him about requests to testify. Poulos’s offer comes a day after Republican Rep. Lee Chatfield, who is the speaker in the state’s House of Representatives, said the legislature would vote on granting the Oversight Committee broad subpoena power in an effort to get Dominion in front of the lawmakers.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Dominion for a full copy of Poulos’s communique with McBroom but did not immediately receive a response.
As legislators look into allegations of electoral malfeasance, another matter with Dominion Voting Systems is also floating around the legal system. In Antrim County, a voter named William Bailey took filed suit to challenge a local marijuana retailer proposal that passed by a thin margin after three ballots were not included in a retabulation because they were damaged.
A judge allowed a team to use “forensic imaging” to look at Dominion voting machines on Sunday. The state responded to the decision by warning against a “group” of bad-faith actors who seek to spread disinformation about the voting software.
“It is disappointing, though not surprising, that the primary goal of this group is to continue spreading false information designed to erode the public’s confidence in the election,” said Michigan Department of State spokesman Jake Rollow. “By doing so, they injure our democracy and dishonor the 5.5 million Michigan citizens who cast ballots.”
Michigan also moved to intervene in the case, which would allow state officials better access to scrutinize the plaintiff’s claims of election fraud.
“The Secretary has an interest in Plaintiff’s claims that the officials whom she supervises either failed to operate the Dominion voting system tabulator properly or otherwise failed to perform their canvassing duties to ensure a proper canvass as to all candidate races, local and state, as well as all ballot proposals in the County, as a result of any purported tabulator errors or intentional fraud,” the Wednesday motion read.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office also said Wednesday that a zero-margin risk-limiting audit will be conducted in Antrim County this month and will essentially be “a hand tally of every ballot, which can be compared with the machine-tabulated results.” The Washington Examiner reached out to see if the Antrim County audit was pre-planned but did not receive a response.
Biden won the state of Michigan by more than 150,000 votes. His total projected Electoral College votes are 306 to 232 for Trump.
