Last updated June 8, 2022
Quick Facts:
- With a week of the 2020 election, Trump began making claims about voting machine errors and fraud that he said changed the outcome in favor of Biden.
- Trump described Dominion Voting Systems as “horrendous,” “Radical Left,” “poorly rated,” “very suspect,” and “a disaster.”
- According to Trump, voting machines were used to change thousands of votes from Trump to Biden “with the turn of a dial or the change of a chip.”
- Trump stated that so-called voting machine “glitches” were actually “absolute fraud,” and accused Dominion machines of being used for “tremendous corruption.”
- As of June 8, 2022, Trump has not been named as a defendant in lawsuits filed by Dominion.
The chart below shows 46 claims from Donald Trump about voting machine fraud or “glitches” in the presidential election from election day on November 3, 2020, through January 6, 2021, when the electoral college votes were certified.
We found 31 claims from Trump that mentioned Dominion Voting Systems by name; we have not found quotes from Trump that mention any other voting machine companies by name as of the date of this document. In the 2020 election, Dominion Voting Systems products were used in an estimated 24 states.[1]Verified Voting, “The Verifier — Search — November 2020,” verifiedvoting.org (accessed May 26, 2021)
Following the election, some conservative media and Trump allies claimed that voting machine companies changed votes or tried to rig the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden. A former Dominion employee sued the Trump campaign for defamation, but no voting machine-related lawsuits appear to have named Trump himself as a defendant. To date, no third party has judged these claims of fraud to be true in any way that could have impacted the election outcome.[2]PBS NewsHour, “Exhaustive Fact Check Finds Little Evidence of Voter Fraud, But 2020’s ‘Big Lie’ Lives On,” pbs.org, December 21, 2021
Many of Trump’s claims about voting machine fraud were originally posted on Twitter. When Twitter suspended Donald Trump’s account on January 8, 2021, the company deleted all of his tweets from its platform. The website thetrumparchive.com has a record of all of Trump’s tweets, which we have used to verify the text of the claims that Trump originally posted on Twitter. Any typos, irregular capitalizations, or other errors are preserved from the original tweets.
A. Trump’s 46 Quotes about Voting Machine Fraud or “Glitches” | B. Fraud Claim | |
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1 | 11/7/2020 “Georgia Counties Using Same Software as Michigan Counties Also Encounter ‘Glitch’ https://t.co/N2KlEOezGi via @BreitbartNews What a total mess this ‘election’ has been!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 10:23 am [Note: This tweet links to an article on Breitbart.com that states, “Voting machines crashed in Georgia’s Spalding and Morgan Counties on Tuesday morning because of what election officials described as a ‘glitch.’”] | Voting machine software glitches caused machines to crash and contributed to the election being a mess |
2 | 11/11/2020 “It [Dominion Voting Systems] attempted to alter our election and got caught?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 11, 2020 11:17 pm [Note: This tweet links to a tweet that read, “What do we know about Dominion?”] | Questioned whether Dominion attempted to alter election results and got caught |
3 | 11/12/2020 ‘”REPORT: DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE. DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000 PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN. 941,000 TRUMP VOTES DELETED. STATES USING DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS SWITCHED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN.’ @ChanelRion @OANN” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 11:34 am | Quoted a headline about Dominion deleting Trump votes or switching Trump votes to Biden |
4 | 11/12/2020 “Must see @seanhannity takedown of the horrible, inaccurate and anything but secure Dominion Voting System which is used in States where tens of thousands of votes were stolen from us and given to Biden. Likewise, the Great @LouDobbs has a confirming and powerful piece!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 10:46 pm | Dominion voting machines changed Trump votes to Biden |
5 | 11/13/2020 “Heartwarming to see all of the tremendous support out there, especially the organic Rallies that are springing up all over the Country, including a big one on Saturday in D.C. I may even try to stop by and say hello. This Election was Rigged, from Dominion all the way up & down!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 13, 2020 1:35 pm | The election was rigged by Dominion |
6 | 11/13/2020 “Now it is learned that the horrendous Dominion Voting System was used in Arizona (and big in Nevada). No wonder the result was a very close loss!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 13, 2020 3:38 pm | Dominion voting machines were used in states with very close results |
7 | 11/14/2020 “People are not going to stand for having this Election stolen from them by a privately owned Radical Left company, Dominion, and many other reasons!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 3:07 pm | Dominion stole the election |
8 | 11/15/2020 “He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 15, 2020 7:47 am | Observers not allowed in voting places; Dominion has a bad reputation and bum equipment |
9 | 11/15/2020 “Why does the Fake News Media continuously assume that Joe Biden will ascend to the Presidency, not even allowing our side to show, which we are just getting ready to do, how badly shattered and violated our great Constitution has been in the 2020 Election. It was attacked,.. ….perhaps like never before! From large numbers of Poll Watchers that were thrown out of vote counting rooms in many of our States, to millions of ballots that have been altered by Democrats, only for Democrats, to voting after the Election was over, to using Radical Left ….owned Dominion Voting Systems, turned down by Texas and many others because it was not good or secure, those responsible for the safeguarding of our Constitution cannot allow the Fake results of the 2020 Mail-In Election to stand. The World is watching!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 15, 2020 8:46 pm | Poll watchers thrown out of counting rooms; Democrats altered ballots; late voting allowed; Dominion voting machines not secure |
10 | 11/16/2020 “Dominion is running our Election. Rigged!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 16, 2020 8:26 am | Dominion rigged the election |
11 | 11/17/2020 “The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud – including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into polling locations, ‘glitches’ in the voting machines which changed… …votes from Trump to Biden, late voting, and many more. Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 7:07 pm | Poll watchers not allowed; voting machines had glitches that changed votes from Trump to Biden; late voting allowed |
12 | 11/17/2020 “The only thing secure about our 2020 Election was that it was virtually impenetrable by foreign powers. On that, the Trump Administration takes great credit. Unfortunately, the Radical Left Democrats, Dominion, and others, were perhaps more successful!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 7:25 pm | Democrats and Dominion may have penetrated election security |
13 | 11/18/2020 “This was a rigged election. No Republican Poll Watchers allowed, voting machine ‘glitches’ all over the place (meaning they got caught cheating!), voting after election ended, and so much more!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 9:11 am | Republican poll watchers not allowed; voting machine glitches used for cheating; late voting allowed |
14 | 11/23/2020 “What does GSA being allowed to preliminarily work with the Dems have to do with continuing to pursue our various cases on what will go down as the most corrupt election in American political history? We are moving full speed ahead. Will never concede to fake ballots & ‘Dominion’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 23, 2020 11:07 pm | Fake ballots and Dominion contributed to the election being corrupt |
15 | 11/25/2020 “And all you had to do is take a look at the numbers at 10 o’clock in the evening when everybody thought the election was virtually over, and then very weird things happened. But they’re not weird to professionals, and they’re not weird to Dominion and other people that operate machines.” -Donald Trump, “President Trump Phones into Pennsylvania Republican Hearing on 2020 Election,” YouTube.com, November 25, 2020 | Dominion and people who operate voting machines did weird things after initial election returns reported |
16 | 11/26/2020 “You have Dominion [voting machines], which is very, very suspect to start off with. Nobody knows the ownership. People say the votes are counted in foreign countries. No, no, they—and much worse than that, by the way, with Dominion.[3]Dominion was founded in Canada in 2003, and in 2009 was incorporated in the United States (based in Colorado). Staple Street Capital in New York City became majority owner in 2018. Dominion is a … Continue reading So, you know, Dominion is also partially based in Canada, but it’s based in other countries too. And nobody knows where the votes—but you know, Canada refuses to use Dominion. Canada uses paper ballots. So think of it: They’re based in Canada, and Canada refuses to use them. They’re smart. They use paper ballots, because paper ballots are the only thing—frankly, the only thing that really you’re going to get an accurate tab on, because those machines are fixed. They’re rigged. You can press ‘Trump,’ and the vote goes to Biden. All you have to do is play with a chip, and it’s down—it’s shown all the time. All you have to do is play with a chip. And they played with a chip, especially in Wayne County, in Detroit. You take a look.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks During a Video Teleconference With United States Servicemembers and Exchange With Reporters,” presidency.ucsb.edu, November 26, 2020 | Dominion voting machines have unknown ownership, may count votes in foreign countries, and are rigged to change Trump votes to Biden |
17 | 11/26/2020 [Reporter: “Mr. President, if the electoral college votes for Joe Biden on December 14, will you concede the election?”] “I—it’s going to be a very hard thing to concede, because we know there was massive fraud… This was a massive fraud. This should never take place in this country. We’re like a third-world country. We have [voting] machines that nobody knows what the hell they’re looking at. I mean, you take a look at all the mistakes they made.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks During a Video Teleconference With United States Servicemembers and Exchange With Reporters,” presidency.ucsb.edu, November 26, 2020 | Voting machines made mistakes |
18 | 11/26/2020 “Massive fraud has been found. We’re like a third-world country. We’re using computer equipment that can be hacked. They talk about glitches: How many glitches did they find? So a glitch—‘Oh, gee. We had a glitch: 5,000 votes.’ In all cases—right? In all cases, the votes went from Trump to Biden. They didn’t go from Biden—the glitches were never from Biden to Trump. So they had many glitches. And they said, “Oh, we had a glitch.’ That—a glitch is like: ‘The equipment is a little broken. We’ll fix it up.’ No. A glitch is, in this case, we caught them cheating. We caught them stealing. We caught a fraudulent effort to get votes. And they said, ‘Oh, yes, it’s true. It—there was, but’—and there were many of them. But here’s the problem: There were probably 10, 20, 30 times that didn’t get caught. We just got lucky and caught numerous of them. But what that is, is very simple. If you look at the glitch, the glitch means—right? It means: ‘Oh, we got caught. We got caught with the votes, and now let’s just call it a glitch.’ It wasn’t the [voting] machinery. And by the way, the machinery, if you look—just take a look anywhere on the internet; you will see many, many people where they’re experimenting with this stupid machinery—where, if you set it a certain way, the votes go from Trump to Biden.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks During a Video Teleconference With United States Servicemembers and Exchange With Reporters,” presidency.ucsb.edu, November 26, 2020 | Voting machinery had glitches that allowed hackers and/or altered settings to change Trump votes to Biden |
19 | 11/26/2020 “They are tremendous people. Kelly Loeffler, David Perdue are tremendous people. They should be in the United States Senate. They’re desperately needed. But I told them today, I said: ‘Listen, you have a fraudulent system [in Georgia]. You have a system where the flick of a switch or the putting in of a new chip [in the voting machine] can change the course of history, and you have to be very careful.’” -Donald Trump, “Remarks During a Video Teleconference With United States Servicemembers and Exchange With Reporters,” presidency.ucsb.edu, November 26, 2020 | Voting machines in Georgia are fraudulent |
20 | 11/27/2020 “BIG NEWS: Pennsylvania Poll Watcher: USB Drives uploaded to [voting] machines, gave Biden thousands of votes. Says 47 USB Drives are now missing. EVERY UPLOAD GAVE BIDEN 50,000 VOTES. @OANN” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 27, 2020 8:36 am | Poll workers used USB drives to upload votes for Biden into voting machines |
21 | 11/29/2020 “You start with these [voting] machines that have been suspect, not allowed to be used in Texas, the Dominion machines, where tremendous reports have been put out. We have affidavits on — from many people talking about what went on with machines. They had glitches. You know what a glitch is. That’s — a glitch is supposed to be when a machine breaks down. Well, no, we had glitches where they moved thousands of votes from my account to Biden’s account. And these are glitches. So, they’re not glitches. They’re theft. They’re fraud, absolute fraud. And there were many of them, but, obviously, most of them tremendous amounts, got by without us catching. We got lucky to catch them. I think we caught four or five glitches of about 5,000 votes each, and different states. And, again, they’re not glitches. That was fraud. And they got caught. But, for the most part, they got away with it.” -Donald Trump, “Interview: Maria Bartiromo Interviews Donald Trump on Fox News – November 29, 2020,” factba.se, November 29, 2020 | Dominion voting machines had glitches that changed Trump votes to Biden |
22 | 11/29/2020 “[T]here’s never been anything like this [election fraud] in history. And it all started with the mail-in. But it also goes to Dominion. It goes to a lot of things.” -Donald Trump, “Interview: Maria Bartiromo Interviews Donald Trump on Fox News – November 29, 2020,” factba.se, November 29, 2020 | Dominion and mail-in ballots contributed to election fraud |
23 | 11/29/2020 “You know, the votes in Dominion, they say, are counted in foreign countries, OK? Can you believe this? Now, Dominion is also based in a number of foreign countries. One of them is Canada. And Canada refuses to use Dominion. And they’re based there. They don’t — they won’t get anywhere near it. Texas will not get anywhere near Dominion. I spoke with the attorney general. I spoke with a lot of different people.” -Donald Trump, “Interview: Maria Bartiromo Interviews Donald Trump on Fox News – November 29, 2020,” factba.se, November 29, 2020 | Dominion may count vote in foreign countries and the company is based abroad and not used by Canada or Texas |
24 | 11/29/2020 “@60Minutes never asked us for a comment about their ridiculous, one sided story on election security, which is an international joke. Our 2020 Election, from poorly rated Dominion to a Country FLOODED with unaccounted for Mail-In ballots, was probably our least secure EVER!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 29, 2020 8:05 pm | Dominion was poorly rated for election security |
25 | 12/2/2020 “On top of everything else, we have a company that’s very suspect. It’s name is Dominion, with the turn of a dial or the change of a chip, you could press a button for Trump and the vote goes to Biden… In one Michigan County, as an example, that used Dominion Systems [voting machines], they found that nearly 6,000 votes had been wrongly switched from Trump to Biden, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. This is what we caught. How many didn’t we catch? Are there 100s of other examples throughout the country? Are there 1000s?[4]Trump has said that 6,000 votes in Michigan were changed from Trump to Biden, a claim also spread by others such as RNC chair Ronna McDaniel. The Michigan Department of State said an “accidental … Continue reading We just got lucky and they called it a glitch, but we found numerous glitches that evening. 96% of the company’s political donations went to Democrats, not surprisingly… Dominion is a disaster.” -Donald Trump, “Donald Trump Speech on Election Fraud Claims Transcript December 2,” rev.com, December 2, 2020 | Dominion voting machines switched 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden in Michigan |
26 | 12/2/2020 “In Arizona, in-person voters whose ballots produced error messages from tabulation machines were told to press a button that resulted in their votes not being counted.” -Donald Trump, “Donald Trump Speech on Election Fraud Claims Transcript December 2,” rev.com, December 2, 2020 | Tabulation machines in Arizona had errors that resulted in votes not counting |
27 | 12/3/2020 “Dominion contractor at Detroit counting center says thousands of ballots were scanned multiple times” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 4:11 pm [Note: This tweet is a quote of the headline from an article linked in the tweet] | Dominion contract employee said ballots were scanned multiple times |
28 | 12/5/2020 “In one Michigan county using Dominion Voting Systems, nearly 6,000 votes were discovered that were wrongly switched from Trump to Biden. They called it a glitch. You know a glitch? Just like the [voting] machine broke. Numerous times we found glitches, and every single time, the glitch went a hundred percent to Biden and no percent to Trump. The same systems are used in 30 states. The left lies, they cheat and they steal. They are ruthless and they are hellbent on getting power and control by any means necessary.” -Donald Trump, “Donald Trump Georgia Rally Transcript Before Senate Runoff Elections December 5,” rev.com, December 5, 2020 | Dominion voting machines in a Michigan county switched Trump votes to Biden |
29 | 12/7/2020 “If you look at the polls, it was a rigged election. You look at the different states, the election was totally rigged. It’s a disgrace to our country. It’s like a third world country. These ballots pouring in from everywhere using machinery that nobody knows, ownership nobody knows anything about. They have glitches as they call them. Glitches, with glitches, who aren’t glitches. They got caught sending out thousands of votes, all against me, by the way.” -Donald Trump, “Donald Trump Presents Medal of Freedom to Dan Gable Transcript December 7,” rev.com, December 7, 2020 | Voting machinery had unclear ownership and glitches that added votes for Biden |
30 | 12/13/2020 “The [voting] machines are the worst. Dominion, Dominion, nobody knows who even owns it. These machines are controlling our country. So it was a rigged election. It was a really a sham and a shame.” -Donald Trump, “Interview: Brian Kilmeade of Fox News Interviews Donald Trump – December 13, 2020,” factba.se, December 13, 2020 | Dominion company ownership unknown and voting machines controlled the election |
31 | 12/13/2020 “Swing States that have found massive VOTER FRAUD, which is all of them, CANNOT LEGALLY CERTIFY these votes… Also, [voting] machine ‘glitches’ (another word for FRAUD)… took…. ….place in Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere. In all Swing State cases, there are far more votes than are necessary to win the State, and the Election itself. Therefore, VOTES CANNOT BE CERTIFIED. THIS ELECTION IS UNDER PROTEST!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 13, 2020 5:49 pm | Voting machine glitches used for election fraud |
32 | 12/15/2020 “This is BIG NEWS. Dominion Voting Machines are a disaster all over the Country. Changed the results of a landslide election. Can’t let this happen. Thank you for the genius, bravery, and patriotism of the Judge. Should get a medal!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 12:21 am | Dominion voting machines changed the results of the election |
33 | 12/15/2020 “Tremendous problems being found with voting machines. They are so far off it is ridiculous. Able to take a landslide victory and reduce it to a tight loss. This is not what the USA is all about. Law enforcement shielding machines. DO NOT TAMPER, a crime. Much more to come!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 9:21 am | Voting machines had tremendous problems that changed outcome of election |
34 | 12/15/2020 “68% error rate in Michigan Voting Machines. Should be, by law, a tiny percentage of one percent. Did Michigan Secretary of State break the law? Stay tuned!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 9:25 am | Voting machines had a 68% error rate in Michigan |
35 | 12/16/2020 “’Study: Dominion Machines shifted 2-3% of Trump Votes to Biden. Far more votes than needed to sway election.’ Florida, Ohio, Texas and many other states were won by even greater margins than projected. Did just as well with Swing States, but bad things happened. @OANN” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, 2020 1:09 am | Quoted headline stating that Dominion voting machines changed 2-3% of Trump votes to Biden |
36 | 12/16/2020 “Chris Krebs was totally excoriated and proven wrong at the Senate Hearing on the Fraudulent 2020 Election. Massive FRAUD took place with [voting] machines.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 16, 2020 1:51 pm | Voting machines had massive fraud |
37 | 12/17/2020 “’Michigan fraud witness totally debunks Dominion CEO.’ @OANN It was brutal!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 17, 2020 1:14 am | Witness to fraud in Michigan debunked Dominion CEO claim that voting machines did not switch votes |
38 | 12/19/2020 “There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 19, 2020 11:30 am | Voting machines were subject to security concerns |
39 | 12/22/2020 “In addition, there is the deeply troubling matter of Dominion Voting Systems. In just one Michigan County alone, 6,000 votes were switched from Trump to Biden and the same system was used throughout a majority of the United States. No satisfactory explanation has been offered for why Dominion Systems are able to switch votes with a mere push of a button, In Arizona, the State Senate has recently issued a subpoena for a forensic audit of the voting machines. And similar investigations must be conducted in every state using Dominion Systems immediately. In Texas, they don’t allow Dominion Systems to be used.” -Donald Trump, “Donald Trump Vlog: Contesting Election Results – December 22, 2020,” factba.se, December 22, 2020 | Dominion voting machines in one Michigan county switched 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden |
40 | 1/2/2021 “Then the other thing they said is in Fulton County [Georgia] and other areas, and this may or may not be true. This just came up this morning that they are burning their ballots, that they are shredding, shredding ballots and removing equipment. They’re changing the equipment on the, on the Dominion machines. And, you know, that’s not legal. And they supposedly shred. And I think they said 300 pounds of— 3,000 pounds of ballots… Now, do you think it’s possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that’s what the rumor is. And also that Dominion took out machines. That Dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery… It doesn’t pass the smell test, because we hear they’re shredding thousands and thousands of ballots, and now what they’re saying, ‘Oh, we’re just cleaning up the office.’ Yeah.” -Donald Trump, “Transcript: President Trump’s Phone Call With Georgia Election Officials,” nytimes.com, January 2, 2021 | Georgia election officials shredded ballots and Dominion got rid of voting machines/ machinery after the election |
41 | 1/2/2021 “I mean, in other states we think we found tremendous corruption with Dominion [voting] machines, but we’ll have to see… I won’t give Dominion a pass because we’ve found too many bad things.” -Donald Trump, “Transcript: President Trump’s Phone Call With Georgia Election Officials,” nytimes.com, January 2, 2021 | Evidence of corruption with Dominion voting machines |
42 | 1/3/2021 “’Georgia election data, just revealed, shows that over 17,000 votes illegally flipped from Trump to Biden.’ @OANN This alone (there are many other irregularities) is enough to easily ‘swing Georgia to Trump’. #StopTheSteal” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 9:20 am | Voting machines in Georgia flipped over 17,000 votes from Trump to Biden |
43 | 1/4/2021 “First, the Dominion voting machines employed in Fulton County — that’s the home of Stacey [Abrams] — had an astounding 93.67 error rate. ‘Ninety-three point six seven error rate in the scanning of ballots requiring a review panel to adjudicate or determine the voter’s intent.’ So they’re going to a voter intent, ‘What did the voter mean by this vote?’ Somebody votes for Trump, ‘Ah, you know, I think that voter meant something other. He doesn’t want Trump, let’s just switch it around.’ Think of that, they’re trying to determine the voter’s intent in over 106,000 ballots out of a total of 113,000 ballots… ‘[T]here is clear evidence that tens of thousands of votes were switched from President Trump to Former Vice President Biden in several counties throughout Georgia. For example, in Bibb County’ — anybody live in Bibb County? Bibb? Bibb? Bibb? B-I-B-B? ‘President Trump was reported to have 29,391 at 9:11 PM, while simultaneously, Former Vice President Joe Biden was reported to have 17,218. Minutes later, at the next update, these vote numbers switched, with President Trump now having 17,000 and Biden now having 29,391.’ That was a switch of over 12,000 votes! It was like a miracle!” -Donald Trump, “Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Political Rally in Dalton, Georgia – January 4, 2021,” factba.se, January 4, 2021 [Note: In the above quote, Donald Trump is reading from a letter by Georgia State Senator William Ligon and inserting his own commentary.] | Dominion voting machines in Fulton County, Georgia, had a 93.67% error rate; voting machines in other counties in Georgia switched Trump votes to Biden |
44 | 1/4/2021 “The crime that was committed in this state [Georgia] is immeasurable. An immediate forensic audit of an appropriate sampling of Dominion’s voting machines and related equipment is critical to determine the level of illegal fraudulent ballots improperly counted in Georgia during the 2020 General Election, and during tomorrow’s race.” -Donald Trump, “Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Political Rally in Dalton, Georgia – January 4, 2021,” factba.se, January 4, 2021 | Dominion voting machines and related equipment added illegal and fraudulent ballots to the vote total in Georgia |
45 | 1/5/2021 “Reports are coming out of the 12th Congressional District of Georgia that Dominion Machines are not working in certain Republican Strongholds for over an hour. Ballots are being left in lock boxes, hopefully they count them.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 1:18 pm | Dominion voting machines in Republican strongholds in Georgia were not working |
46 | 1/6/2021 “’In addition, there is the highly troubling matter of Dominion Voting Systems. In one Michigan county alone, 6,000 votes were switched from Trump to Biden and the same systems are used in the majority of states in our country.’ Senator William Ligon, a great gentleman, chairman of Georgia’s senate judiciary subcommittee. Senator Ligon, highly respected, on elections has written a letter describing his concerns with Dominion in Georgia. He wrote, and I quote, ‘The Dominion Voting Machines employed in Fulton County had an astronomical and astounding 93.67% error rate. It’s only wrong 93% of the time in the scanning of ballots requiring a review panel to adjudicate or determine the voter’s interest in over 106,000 ballots out of a total of 113,000.’” -Donald Trump, “Transcript of Trump’s Speech at Rally Before US Capitol Riot,” usnews.com, January 13, 2021 | Dominion voting machines switched 6,000 votes in Michigan from Trump to Biden |
References
↑1 | Verified Voting, “The Verifier — Search — November 2020,” verifiedvoting.org (accessed May 26, 2021) |
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↑2 | PBS NewsHour, “Exhaustive Fact Check Finds Little Evidence of Voter Fraud, But 2020’s ‘Big Lie’ Lives On,” pbs.org, December 21, 2021 |
↑3 | Dominion was founded in Canada in 2003, and in 2009 was incorporated in the United States (based in Colorado). Staple Street Capital in New York City became majority owner in 2018. Dominion is a privately held company that does not disclose its financials. However, CEO Jeff Poulous told the House Committee on Administration that he owns a 12% stake of the company while Staple Street Capital owns 75.2%, and no other investor has a stake bigger than 5%. Sources: Ali Swenson, “Family of Hugo Chavez does not own Dominion Voting Systems,” apnews.com, Dec. 1, 2020 and Casey Van Divier, “Denver’s Dominion Voting Services Is Target of Trump Voting-Fraud Rumors,” westword.com, Nov. 17, 2020 |
↑4 | Trump has said that 6,000 votes in Michigan were changed from Trump to Biden, a claim also spread by others such as RNC chair Ronna McDaniel. The Michigan Department of State said an “accidental error” was caused by an Antrim County clerk forgetting to update the software used to send unofficial results, leading to incorrect unofficial reports that Biden won the county. The state said the actual count was always reflected correctly on the tabulator totals tape and on the ballots themselves. The tabulator totals tape are reviewed by a board of two Democrats and two Republicans to ensure accuracy. Source: Michigan Department of State, “False claims from Ronna McDaniel have no merit,” michigan.gov, Nov. 6, 2020 |