Dominion Voting System

Does an election video show a worker "manipulating" data in Gwinnett County, Georgia? No, that's not true: The video shows a person moving what appears to be a USB thumb drive from one computer to another and looking at the screen. The technician was transferring a report so he could read it, according to Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting system implementation…

Did a Dominion Voting Systems official admit in 2017 that its election equipment allows for votes to be switched? No, that is not true. Dominion has strongly denied that votes can be switched in its systems. No evidence is presented -- in a widely shared video clip -- that Dominion admitted to a vote-switching capacity in its equipment.The Dominion official…

Is a video discussing purported voter fraud in Arizona factual? No, it's not: The video contains falsehoods and unproven claims. Specifically, 35,000 votes were not added to Democratic candidates, as Lead Stories has previously reported, and there's no evidence that 1.9 million votes in Maricopa County are in jeopardy of being tossed because of signature verification issues. The county has…

Did the U.S. Army's Special Forces seize a CIA server farm in Frankfurt, Germany, resulting in deaths of U.S. soldiers? No, that's not true: A U.S. Army spokesperson told Lead Stories the claim is false. Lead Stories has previously debunked claims that American forces seized a computer server in Frankfurt that was owned by a company that provided voting machines…

Is Dominion Voting Systems vice president Eric Coomer missing and has the company closed its headquarters? No, that's not true: A video repeats unfounded claims Lead Stories has previously debunked: that Dominion Voting Systems has shuttered its headquarters amid unfounded and rebutted claims that the company manipulated election results in favor of Joe Biden over Donald Trump. There is no…

Was Dominion Voting Systems "caught red handed stealing votes on live TV"? No, that's not true: A video claiming to show an unexplained vote change taking votes away from Donald Trump and giving the exact same number to Joe Biden on election night is false for two reasons. The numbers were "transposed in the data field that went to CNN…

Does California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, own a stake in Dominion Voting Systems, and is that part of the reason she is relinquishing the top Democrat spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee? No, that's not true: A Dominion spokesperson told Lead Stories that Blum does not have an ownership stake in the company. Feinstein cited other reasons for…

Have Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic closed up shop and are all their executives on the run after the 2020 vote count? No, that's not true: Neither Dominion nor Smartmatic has shuttered. Citing safety concerns, Dominion has encouraged employees to work remotely and to protect their social media. But, otherwise, both companies continue to operate as normal. Executives remain in…

Does a YouTube analysis of the votes in four Michigan counties prove election software transferred 69,000 votes from President Donald Trump to Joe Biden? No, that's not true: Based on an analytical method created by a non-statistician, this conspiracy theory does not buttress its DIY analysis with the work of a professional statistician, nor with real-world evidence that a person…

Does a company named Scytl control votes cast in United States elections because Dominion Voting Systems and other election technology companies upload election results to Scytl databases? No, that's not true: The OSET (Open Source Election Technology) Institute in Palo Alto, California, told Lead Stories that votes are recorded and stored locally, and remain under the authority of local election…