"As someone who has studied election systems and the election industry for 20 years, I've gotten questions from family and friends wanting to know if this is something to be worried about. My response has been: Not particularly. But don't misunderstand the nonchalance-it's not because it's not wildly inappropriate and troubling for a declared partisan to control voting equipment. It's because the partisan ownership of an election supplier is merely one aspect of the badly broken, opaque, and corrupted election system industry that we've been subjected to for decades."
"The terms of the Dominion sale have not been disclosed, so we do not know the price, or if the buyer, Scott Leiendecker, received financing from undisclosed parties. If Leiendecker has other investors (who may or may not be partisan), they now also own a stake in Dominion (rebranded as Liberty Vote). Before it was sold, Dominion was financed primarily by undisclosed investors through the private equity firm Staple Street Capital, which means that we never actually knew who controlled and financed Dominion."
Dominion Voting Systems was sold to Scott Leiendecker, a self-declared partisan, generating concern about partisan control of machines that count more than a quarter of U.S. ballots. Partisan ownership of a voting supplier is inappropriate and troubling but constitutes only one symptom of a broader, opaque, and corrupted election-systems industry. The sale terms were undisclosed, leaving price and potential outside financing unknown. Dominion had previously been financed by undisclosed investors through private equity firm Staple Street Capital, so actual controllers were never clear. Other leading vendors are also principally owned by private equity firms that refuse to disclose investors.
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