John Poulos, the CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, testified before the Michigan State Senate, saying the ongoing spread of false claims about his company and its activities in the last election is a “dangerous and reckless disinformation campaign,” the Detroit Free Press reports.
“These people making baseless claims surely know that they are lies,” and are intent on “sowing doubt and confusion over the 2020 presidential election,” said Poulos, who testified under oath remotely.
Dominion has been at the center of myriad false claims by supporters of lame duck president Donald Trump, who claim that Dominion is a foreign-owned company that off-shored counting the votes and which has imbedded software designed to switch votes remotely.
“We have yet to see our critics make their allegations under oath, as I am doing here today,” testified Poulos.
Poulos’s testimony happened after a report about an incident in Antrim Country, Michigan in which an election official accidentally transposed the votes for Trump and President-elect Joe Biden. The error was quickly found and corrected, but it led to accusation by conspiracy-minded right wingers who claimed that the software switched votes intentionally.
A report from a consultant to former member of Trump’s Elite Special Force Team and Kraken attorney Sidney Powell critiqued the report and created a number of significant errors to feed Powell’s conspiracy theory. Powell’s report, however, is based on a multitude of unproven assumptions and false statements, including a false claim that Dominion machines used Smartmatic software.
Poulos testified that Dominion has no association with Smartmatic, except a 2009 agreement to use Dominion machines in a 2009 election in the Philippines, and a Dominion purchase of Sequoia Systems, which was once owned by Smartmatic.