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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4720737" data-attributes="member: 48469"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/dominion-voting-executive-defamation-lawsuit/index.html" target="_blank">Voting machine company executive sues Trump allies for defamation</a>&quot;An executive for a voting machine company that has been the target of conspiracy theories in the aftermath of Donald Trump&#039;s 2020 election loss and been baselessly accused of swinging the results against the President is suing his campaign and conservative media figures for defamation.Trump has called Dominion Voting Systems &quot;a disaster,&quot; and his supporters have pushed the conspiracy theory that the company deleted votes for Trump on its voting equipment and that Dominion&#039;s director of product strategy and security, Eric Coomer, helped subvert the election.There is no evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, and his administration and election officials have called it the<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/2020-election-trump-voter-conspiracies/index.html" target="_blank"> &quot;most secure&quot; election</a> in US history. President-elect Joe Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president" target="_blank">won the popular vote</a> by more than 7 million votes and the electoral map 306 to 232.The lawsuit names as defendants the Trump campaign, Rudy Giuliani, Trump adviser Sidney Powell, conservative media outlets One America News Network and Newsmax Media, the right-wing website Gateway Pundit, and Colorado businessman and activist Joseph Oltmann, among others. CNN has reached out to those named in the lawsuit.In recent days -- as the threat of legal action loomed larger -- several conservative media outlets have begun backtracking some of the more outrageous claims.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4720737, member: 48469"] [URL="https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/politics/dominion-voting-executive-defamation-lawsuit/index.html"]Voting machine company executive sues Trump allies for defamation[/URL] "An executive for a voting machine company that has been the target of conspiracy theories in the aftermath of Donald Trump's 2020 election loss and been baselessly accused of swinging the results against the President is suing his campaign and conservative media figures for defamation. Trump has called Dominion Voting Systems "a disaster," and his supporters have pushed the conspiracy theory that the company deleted votes for Trump on its voting equipment and that Dominion's director of product strategy and security, Eric Coomer, helped subvert the election. There is no evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, and his administration and election officials have called it the[URL='https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/2020-election-trump-voter-conspiracies/index.html'] "most secure" election[/URL] in US history. President-elect Joe Biden [URL='https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president']won the popular vote[/URL] by more than 7 million votes and the electoral map 306 to 232. The lawsuit names as defendants the Trump campaign, Rudy Giuliani, Trump adviser Sidney Powell, conservative media outlets One America News Network and Newsmax Media, the right-wing website Gateway Pundit, and Colorado businessman and activist Joseph Oltmann, among others. CNN has reached out to those named in the lawsuit. In recent days -- as the threat of legal action loomed larger -- several conservative media outlets have begun backtracking some of the more outrageous claims." [/QUOTE]

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