Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos avoided a question on Monday about whether his company lost any business due to election fraud claims spread by Rudy Giuliani.
During an interview, CNN’s Chris Cuomo pressed Poulos on the lawsuit against former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer in which the firm seeks $1.3 billion. Giuliani has accused the company of using its voting machines to rig the November election.
When asked whether the company lost contracts as a result of the matter, Poulos responded, “There’s no money, Chris, that can even begin to make up for the damage in reputation that our company and the customers, the election officials that have used our technology to count ballots. The actual calculation of the $1.3 billion is a legal calculation, and we will play that out in court. But if I could trade our reputation back from Nov. 1 and go back before these false accusations were lobbed against us and our employees, I would do that in a heartbeat.”
Poulos did not specify whether the company had lost any contracts in light of the allegations, and Cuomo did not press him further on the matter. The Washington Examiner reached out to Dominion for comment on the matter but did not immediately hear back.
The lawsuit itself, filed on Monday, does not appear to include information about any specific contracts lost due to the accusations leveled by Giuliani. It does, however, discuss the possibility that Dominion will lose business in the future because of what they believe to be their now-damaged reputation.
“Since the viral disinformation campaign began, state legislators in various states in which Dominion has contracts —including Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania — have stated their intent to review and reassess those contracts,” the lawsuit says.
“Based on Dominion’s historical financial track record, contract pipeline, retention and renewal rates, and new business capture rates, as well as the nature, severity, pervasiveness, and permanence of the viral disinformation campaign, current projections show lost profits of $200 million over the next five years, when reduced to the present value,” the company adds.
The lawsuit also said Giuliani’s allegations have “destroyed the resale value” of Dominion, which they say “was worth between $450 million and $500 million before the viral disinformation campaign.”
Giuliani threatened to countersue Dominion in a statement responding to the lawsuit.
“Dominion’s defamation lawsuit for $1.3B will allow me to investigate their history, finances, and practices fully and completely. The amount being asked for is, quite obviously, intended to frighten people of faint heart. It is another act of intimidation by the hate-filled left-wing to wipe out and censor the exercise of free speech, as well as the ability of lawyers to defend their clients vigorously. As such, we will investigate a countersuit against them for violating these Constitutional rights,” he said.
