Giuliani’s Four Falsehoods About Dominion

Nick CorasanitiReporting on viral misinformation

Dominion Voting Systems, one of the largest voting machine vendors in the U.S, filed a defamation lawsuit against Rudolph W. Giuliani on Monday, accusing him of spreading a litany of falsehoods about the company.

Here are four of the most common false statements made by Giuliani →

Giuliani’s Four Falsehoods About Dominion

Nick CorasanitiReporting on viral misinformation

1. The Company’s Origin

Giuliani regularly stated, falsely, that Dominion “really is a Venezuelan company” that was “developed in about 2004, 2005 to help Chavez steal elections.” In truth, Dominion was founded in 2002 in Toronto to help blind people vote on paper ballots.

Giuliani’s Four Falsehoods About Dominion

Nick CorasanitiReporting on viral misinformation

2. Programming Votes

Another often-repeated and unfounded claim was that Dominion had programmed its machines to flip votes from Trump to Biden. Numerous government and law enforcement officials say there is no evidence to back up those statements.

Giuliani’s Four Falsehoods About Dominion

Nick CorasanitiReporting on viral misinformation

3. Antrim County, Mich.

Giuliani falsely claimed that a “Dominion machine flipped 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden” in the county, and that machines there were “62 percent inaccurate.” The Michigan secretary of state’s office conducted a hand audit of all presidential votes in Antrim County that found the machines were accurate.

Giuliani’s Four Falsehoods About Dominion

Nick CorasanitiReporting on viral misinformation

4. A Problematic Expert

Giuliani largely relied on one man, Russell Ramsland Jr., a former Republican congressional candidate from Texas, to support his claims about Antrim County.

The Dominion suit quotes the former acting director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Voting System Testing and Certification program, who says that Ramsland’s report “showed a ‘grave misunderstanding’ of Antrim County’s voting system and ‘a lack of knowledge of election technology and process.’”

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