Software company withdrew its defamation lawsuit against Houston-based nonprofit, True the Vote

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An election management software company withdrew a lawsuit last week that accused a Houston-based conservative nonprofit of making slanderous statements about the software company's work during the 2020 election.

Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote at a conference in Worthington, Ohio, Aug. 25, 2012. For more than a decade, Engelbrecht, an election-fraud crusader, has raised doubts about ballots and voting.last week that accused a Houston-based conservative nonprofit of making slanderous statements about the software company's work during the 2020 election. The company reserved the right to refile the federal case at a later date.

The Sept. 12 suit came in response to Engelbrecht's and Phillips' accusation that Konnech had allowed the Chinese government to access a server in China that held the personal information — including Social Security numbers, phone numbers, bank account numbers and addresses — of nearly 2 million U.S. election workers. True the Vote’s “unique brand of racism and xenophobia” had defamed Konnech and its founder, Eugene Yu, the lawsuit said.

"They have failed," the statement said."We are evaluating our options with regard to holding them accountable for their unwarranted actions. We believe Konnech dismissed its lawsuit because it saw that it would lose."Engelbrecht and Phillips provided additional statements to the group's Twitter on April 20 decrying their"wrongful imprisonment."

 

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