Dominion Voting Systems released a pointed statement Saturday following remarks from billionaire Elon Musk and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who have reiterated debunked conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The electronic voting machine company reached a record-breaking settlement last year after suing Fox News for spreading disproven claims that its machines had facilitated ballot fraud in 2020. Dominion said Saturday that it is “closely monitoring claims around the 2024 election” that echo those allegations.
“We strongly encourage people to rely upon verified, credible sources of election information – sources that can explain the many layers of physical, operational, and technical safeguards that exist to protect the integrity of our elections,” Dominion wrote in its statement.
“We remain fully prepared to defend our company and our customers against lies, and to seek accountability from those who spread them,” the company added.
Musk has thrown his full weight behind Trump. He promoted the false assertion that Dominion manipulated the election in 2020 at his first solo event to support Trump’s campaign on Thursday, insinuating without proof that “some very strange things” happened to people’s votes.
“When you have mail-in ballots and no proof of citizenship, it becomes almost impossible to prove cheating, is the issue,” Musk said at a Pennsylvania town hall.
“There’s always this question of, say, the Dominion voting machines,” Musk continued. “It is weird that, I think, they were used in Philadelphia and in Maricopa County [in Arizona] but not in a lot of other places. Doesn’t that seem like a heck of a coincidence?”
Dominion — which also sued former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, along with other TV networks like Newsmax, for making defamatory claims about its machines — reacted strongly to Musk’s comments in a separate statement Friday to multiple media outlets.
“Fact: Dominion does not serve Philadelphia County,” the statement said. “Fact: Dominion’s voting systems are already based on voter verified ballots. Fact: Hand counts and audits of such paper ballots have repeatedly proven that Dominion machines produce accurate results.
“These are not matters of opinion. They are verifiable facts.”
Separately, Greene — known for conspiratorial rhetoric, like her recent assertion that a shady “they” can “control the weather” — appeared on Alex Jones’ InfoWars network on Friday, where she claimed that a Dominion machine “changed” the ballot of a voter in her district. (Early voting began in Georgia in the 2024 presidential election earlier this week.)
Musk held his first solo event in support of Trump and his campaign Thursday in Pennsylvania.
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An update on Dominion’s website Saturday clarified that officials from the county in question, Georgia’s Whitfield County, determined “voter error” was to blame in this particular instance and resolved the issue with the voter. The company reasserted that claims that its machines can change votes have “been repeatedly debunked.”
Election officials, courts and Trump’s own administration have failed to produce evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. But promoting false claims that Democrats cheated and will cheat again is nonetheless a feature of Trump’s campaign.
More than a dozen people involved in the “fake electors” scheme to overturn the 2020 election are reportedly set to represent the Republican Party this year as Electoral College electors in battleground states, including Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
