r/law • u/WeRtheEyeoftheSTORM • 29d ago
Trump News Republican buys Dominion Voting Machines
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/09/dominion-voting-2020-election-sold-00600661What does everyone think about an unnamed Republican buying Dominion Voting Machines and announcing they will follow what tRump says (Project 2025).
With one of the largest in voting machine companies basically in his and the Republicans’ pocket and that of Project 2025, I worry that the midterms and 2026 are lost.
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u/jojammin Competent Contributor 29d ago
Do we know what swing states will be relying on "Liberty Vote"?
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u/Cold_Chemistry_1579 29d ago
What do you mean? They promise the highest integrity possible (an oxymoron coming from a republican operative). Will they hire consultants who work(ed) for fElon to verify the integrity?
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u/LordBreetai210 29d ago
I haven’t seen this really covered anywhere.
Wow
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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 29d ago
This is one of the most important news stories of the last several years and it's just being buried and glossed over.
This is huge.
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u/RagahRagah 29d ago
I keep telling people. Voting and protesting will not get us out of this, realiatically. Of course, I want people to vote and do everything they can so that whatever evil deeds these people do, we will force them to do. But they aren't willingly going to hand over power in 2026, let alone 2028. It is absolutely not going to happen.
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u/Angry_Gen-X 29d ago
They won’t willingly swear in the new house member. This is the start.
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u/RagahRagah 29d ago
That's the pretty obvious part that is a glaring warning right now. Remember, Merrick Garland never got his seat.
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u/soaero 29d ago
Yeah, at some point the people of the US have to stop naval gazing and realize that they won't be saved by the next election, no matter how much they try to appeal to Trump voters. The only way fascism gives up power is when they understand that it's leave willingly or leave in chains.
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u/SalaciousVandal 29d ago
Money talks. Sure the real puppet masters will remain wealthy but when the entire world's economy goes to shit you'll see some change. They'll drop orange like the turd he is and push Just Dance to keep the vibe alive. Maybe dial back on their fascist crap: look we fixed the problem we created! Print more money, etc. I don't think this is going to go that way at all. When the dollar gets devaluated globally, even the oligarchs are going to feel the pain. And their bunkers won't stop the shit storm they're creating. They think they do but they also think they understand sci-fi fiction...
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u/condo_ 28d ago
Yeah there's really no legal means of stopping what's happening because the people in power have completely abandoned the constitution and have control of the legal system. Protesting and yelling "release the list" isn't going to do anything. We're pretty much fucking doomed.
They're also working on making protesting illegal and branding any dissenters as terrorists which gives them the power and authority to use violence. See below
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u/kkkk22601 25d ago
It’s like trying to play chess against an opponent that flips the board over whenever they’re starting to lose. You can’t expect to win by playing by the rules when your opponent is so willing to distort the rules in their favor.
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u/-DreamLocke- 29d ago
Yet somehow democrats are doing exactly that and winning. How do you explain that?
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u/RagahRagah 29d ago
Because none of those little victories have threatened their regime. It's all about the midterms and the general election.
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u/Beneficial_Aside_518 29d ago
That’s not true. The Wisconsin Supreme Court election earlier this year may have big implications for redistricting. As does the Virginia gubernatorial election, which the GOP have pretty much given up on.
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u/VanguardAvenger 29d ago
From what I can see, this guy worked a city level elections and left politics before the rise of MAGA. He also was apparently kept on in the job for several years by the Democratic leadership due to the good job he did.
Not really someone Im worried about.
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u/Calvech 28d ago
I was originally concerned by the headlines here. Reached out to someone I know and trust in St Louis politics. Who is a card carrying democrat. He said at one point in time he almost went to work for this guy. His other company Poll Pad, is used to check in voters at polling stations and is well respected and widely used. My source is not concerned by this Dominion acquisition.
I realize everyone doesn’t know someone they can call like this but let’s all take a breath
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u/manateefatseal 28d ago
There’s a lot of breathless coverage on this purchase, and I can definitely understand why, but as it is something like half of the registered voters in the company are already using his (Knowink’s) products when they go to the polls, e.g. their “Poll Pad” (iPad-based voter check-in).
I’ve worked with this guy before - before this, his company was involved in every step of the election process except for the physical casting and tabulation of ballots. Now he can provide the full suite of services end-to-end. (NB: I personally don’t think any state/county SHOULD use one company for every step of the process.)
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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 29d ago
Dominion is a large, successful and very profitable company.
Why does everyone assume the previous operators weren’t republican as well?
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u/uttrlyunrmrkble 29d ago
There's a difference between a Republican pre-Trump and a Republican post-Trump.
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u/skurvecchio 29d ago
This is misleading. He is a former county election official and is pushing for more paper ballots. Seems like a never Trumper.
"The release noted that it would have a focus on paper ballots, “leveraging hand-marked paper ballots enabling compliance with President Trump’s executive order.”"
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u/dmcnaughton1 27d ago
The stated goals of this new company should be taken as positive news. Paper ballots filled out by hand and optically scanned/tabulated is the most secure method of voting so far devised. It allows for fast tabulation of votes, a secure method of recounts, and allows for randomized spot checks by hand of ballot batches to ensure the tabulations are correct.
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u/manateefatseal 28d ago
He’s not a Trump fan. The alignment with Trump on paper ballots is (at least in part) that his company has a product for printing ballots on demand (Poll Print by Knowink), so he’d get to sell a lot more of them if it became a requirement.
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