A day after Michigan’s 16 electoral votes formally went to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., a voting machine producer instructed state senators
A day after Michigan’s 16 electoral votes formally went to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., a voting machine producer instructed state senators that he stood by his firm’s work, and shot down unfounded allegations that the outcomes could have been manipulated.
Dominion Voting Programs is the sufferer of “a harmful and reckless disinformation marketing campaign geared toward sowing doubt and confusion over the 2020 presidential election,” John Poulos, the corporate’s chief government, instructed the State Senate Oversight Committee.
The corporate has come beneath hearth from supporters and legal professionals for President Trump, who’ve claimed with out proof that the corporate’s voting machines switched votes from Mr. Trump to Mr. Biden.
Mr. Poulos assured the committee that his firm had no connections to Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the previous Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, or George Soros, the billionaire financier who’s a topic of conspiracy theories on the appropriate.
“The feedback about our firm being began in Venezuela with Cuban cash with the intent to steal elections are past weird and are full lies,” Mr. Poulos added. “My firm began in my basement, which occurred to be in Toronto.”
State Senators, who’re conducting an investigation into alleged experiences of irregularities within the 2020 election, frequently returned to tiny Antrim County in northern Michigan, the place human error within the native clerk’s workplace associated to updating the software program in some vote tabulators triggered votes for Mr. Trump to be inadvertently counted for Mr. Biden. The error was caught and corrected earlier than the outcomes of the vote had been licensed. Supporters of Mr. Trump have pointed to the error as proof of widespread fraud within the election.
“If all the tabulators had been up to date per our process, there wouldn’t have been any error within the unofficial report,” Mr. Poulos mentioned. “Human errors occur, particularly in busy election years when election officers work tirelessly by way of weekends and holidays for months on finish.”
He dismissed as significantly flawed a report from a self-proclaimed election fraud knowledgeable on the Antrim County state of affairs that has been cited by Trump allies.
Lawmakers additionally repeatedly requested about varied different unfounded allegations, together with that Dominion tabulators had been related to the web, and consequently inclined to hacking; and that the machines employed ranked-choice voting in Michigan.
“Would it not be unimaginable for something to be manipulated,” requested State Senator Michael MacDonald, a Republican.
“I don’t suppose so, but when it was potential, it might actually be detectable,” Mr. Poulos responded, pointing to Michigan’s use of paper ballots. “If there was any manipulation of the system, these paper ballots wouldn’t match the machine totals.”
Though there’s nothing the committee can do to change the outcomes, it plans to proceed to research the election, with plans to subpoena the town clerks of Detroit and Livonia, two cities in Wayne County that drew nationwide consideration final month after Republicans on the county’s board of canvassers initially opposed certifying the election outcomes due to minor irregularities.