The CEO of Dominion Voting Systems responded to “fake claims” that his company’s voting machines played a role in altering the course of the presidential election.
John Poulos wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published on Monday that wanted to “set the record straight” regarding the “bizarre” allegations, fueled by attacks from President Trump and his allies, that suggest the company has ties to deceased Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and that there is a “‘vote-flipping’ algorithm.”
“Dominion is an American company, now headquartered in Denver,” he wrote. “Dominion is not and has never been a front for communists. It has no ties to Hugo Chávez, the late dictator of Venezuela. It has never been involved in Venezuelan elections. None of Dominion’s systems use the Smartmatic software that has come under attack, as any state certification lab could verify.”
Poulos also wrote that Dominion “is never able to affect the outcome of the election.” Poulos also accused Dominion’s critics of “increasingly reckless and defamatory allegations that don’t stand up to scrutiny” and said, “These attacks undermine the tens of thousands of state and local officials who run our elections.”
Although President-elect Joe Biden has been allotted 306 Electoral College votes, more than enough to clinch the White House, Trump refuses to concede the race, relying on a patchwork of legal challenges by his legal team and allies alleging widespread fraud and voter irregularities that have so far been largely unsuccessful in court. The Trump legal team is also looking to convince GOP-led state legislatures in battleground states such as Pennsylvania to select electors who would cast their Electoral College votes for the president because of a flawed popular vote that fell in Biden’s favor.
At a recent press conference in Washington, D.C., Sidney Powell, an attorney from whom the Trump legal team distanced itself, claimed Dominion Voting Systems software was created “at the direction” of Chavez to steal elections in his country and that the machines “can set and run an algorithm that probably ran all over the country to take a certain percentage of votes from President Trump and flip them to President Biden.”
Trump, too, has repeatedly claimed that Dominion had a role in corrupting the vote.
Dominion spokesman Michael Steel rebutted these claims in a Fox News interview, saying that “this is a nonpartisan American company” and “it is not physically possible for our machines to switch votes from one candidate to the other.”
