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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joseph Gedeon, Sam Levine and Hugo Lowell

Dominion, voting firm targeted by false 2020 election claims, sold to new owner

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A voter casts their ballot through a Dominion Voting Systems tabulator in Detroit in October last year. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Dominion Voting Systems, the company that makes widely used voting equipment in the United States that became synonymous with election conspiracies and Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, has been sold.

The company was purchased by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican Missouri election official who founded KnowInk, which makes electronic pollbooks used at voting sites across the country. Leiendecker purchased Dominion under a new company called Liberty Vote. Leiendecker served as the elections director in St Louis from 2005 until 2012, according to his LinkedIn, a period during which he would have overlapped with Ed Martin, a staunch Trump ally at the justice department who served as chairman of the St Louis board of elections from 2005 to 2006.

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