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   Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the center of false fraud claims   
   about the 2020 election, has been acquired by an entity called Liberty   
   Vote.   
      
   "As of today, Dominion is gone," the company said in a press release   
   Thursday. "Liberty Vote assumes full ownership and operational control."   
   Dominion's website now redirects to libertyvote.com.   
      
   President Trump and his allies, including Rudy Giuliani, have falsely   
   blamed Dominion and its machines for rigging the 2020 election, taking   
   votes from Trump. The baseless claims against Dominion caused one of its   
   executives to go into hiding in 2020, and led to numerous defamation   
   lawsuits.   
      
   Giuliani recently reached a confidential settlement with Dominion. Most   
   notably, Dominion won a nearly $800 million defamation case against Fox   
   News.   
      
   Earlier this year, an official with Trump's Justice Department reached out   
   to county clerks in Missouri and asked to inspect Dominion voting   
   equipment they used in 2020.   
      
   The Liberty Vote release makes a couple of nods to conservative election   
   priorities, including calling the acquisition "a bold and historic move to   
   transform and improve election integrity in America." Conservatives in   
   recent years have used the phrase "election integrity" and talked about   
   increasing faith in the nation's voting systems.   
      
   The release also notes that one of Liberty Vote's priorities is   
   "[l]everaging hand-marked paper ballots enabling compliance with President   
   Trump's executive order, and ensuring election security and compliance   
   with federal standards."   
      
   Most U.S. voters already vote using hand-marked paper ballots. Much of   
   Trump's March executive order on voting has been halted by federal judges.   
      
   The new company is founded by Scott Leiendecker, a onetime St. Louis   
   Republican election director who founded an election technology company   
   that's broadly used by election officials.   
      
   https://www.npr.org/2025/10/09/nx-s1-5569817/dominion-voting-liberty-vote-   
   false-claims   
      
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