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What's the deal with Dominion?

What's the deal with Dominion?

There is no evidence that electronic voting machines "stole" the election from Trump.

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Nov 18, 2020
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Reason’s Eric Boehm dives into the conspiracy theories, promoted by right-wing media outlets and the President of the United States, about the Canadian-founded company Dominion Voting Systems:

…the Dominion conspiracy theory seems to have originated with a false claim made anonymously on a pro-Trump website. It rose quickly through the less trustworthy parts of the right-wing mediasphere until it caught the president's attention.

In an all-caps tweet on Saturday night, Trump highlighted a report from One America News Network (OANN), a right-wing outlet, that claimed voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems had "switched" more than 200,000 votes from Trump to Biden and "deleted" another 900,000 Trump votes. That made it a story worthy of being covered by Trump's symbiotes at Fox News and elsewhere.

It is, to be clear, completely unsubstantiated.

The OANN report that Trump tweeted claimed that "data obtained from Edison Research," a polling firm, proved the allegations. But Edison Re…

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