has pitted a voting technology company founded in Toronto against one of the most powerful media organizations on Earth.
“You’re going to have to be very cognizant of what you say now, from a legal standpoint, unless you want to pay big damages. And I think that’s the way it should be,” said Houston lawyer Wes Ball, who helped to lead a lawsuit against talk radio personality Alex Jones. Last year, Mr. Jones was ordered to pay nearly US$1-billion for repeatedly spreading falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting that killed 20 elementary-school children and six adults.Mr.
Against that argument stands Dominion, an unlikely combatant in one of the most hard-fought battles in American society today, the fight to define reality and shape power. Mr. Poulos quickly expanded across North America and into markets around the world. It was a fight from the beginning. What Dominion promised was a product with digital speed and analogue security. One of its machines counts ballots that have been filled out by hand, using optical scanners that boast a speed and accuracy humans cannot match. Another allows for computerized voting, but creates a verifiable paper record of each ballot. From its earliest days, Dominion was focused on “the accuracy and integrity of their product,” recalls Joel Girsky, the founder of Hauppauge, N.Y.-based Jaco Electronics Inc.
Fox has disputed Dominion’s financial vulnerability, but the board of supervisors in California’s Shasta County voted in January to end its contract with the company, saying in a statement: “You can’t put a price tag on voter trust.”