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Re:Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani by MisterBastahrd on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:31PM (#25910421)
Part of the problem is that Republicanism has become a bit of a religion: public policy positions have been increasingly replaced with incoherent dogma. Republicans have been claiming for years, completely without merit, that Dominion has been involved in a variety of vote-changing schemes. It is highly doubtful that Giuliani ever even checked to determine where Dominion's machines were even being used before he started in on various conspiracy theories to keep Trump happy. He and Lin Woods and Sidney Powell made similar claims about Smartmatic, which only has one client in the United States: Los Angeles County.

Even so, the entire idea that a group of hucksters can completely annihilate the reputation of a company based on absolute nonsense from a bunch of angry losers is a bit frightening.

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Re:Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani by throwaway12992 on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:06PM (#25911598) 

    Republicans have been claiming for years, completely 
    without merit, that Dominion has been involved in a 
    variety of vote-changing schemes
Just Republicans? https://thefederalist.com/2016/10/19/8-times-liberals-claime...
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Re:Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani by detaro on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:14PM (#25911639)
Which of the examples in your list alleges that "Dominion has been involved in a [...] vote-changing scheme"?
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Re:Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani by throwaway12992 on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:39PM (#25911780)
Not sure. Here's a democrat that wanted to look at the source code for the Election Systems & Software. Inc. machines. https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20061229/News/60524...

Your question implies that you feel that Dominion is somehow different from other companies doubted by democrats, and itself must never be doubted. Why is it different?

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Re:Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani by heurist on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:31PM (#25931058)
Dominion Voting Systems was created because ES&S was forced to sell Premier Election Solutions due to antitrust concerns. ES&S has been subject of various errors and controversies:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-market-for-voting-mac... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en/Election_Systems_&_Software https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/chinese-parts-hidden-owners...

I also recall seeing liberal concern over Dominion in GA prior to the election. Regardless, it's a powerful industry with a justifiably large amount of public scrutiny, even if we don't always get the transparency we deserve. All of these systems should be public, open source, and verifiable with paper trails.

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