On February 11th, I received a letter from Dominion Election System's lawyers demanding that I retract statements I’ve made about Dominion and that I stop speaking out about their voting machines following the 2020 general election.
Their letter starts, in the very first paragraph, with a lie. It states, “Dominion formally demands that you cease and desist with promoting bogus claims about the election being stolen.”
I have never asserted that the election was stolen, and I have been entirely consistent stating the conclusion of my work: that the number of illegal ballots surpasses the margin of victory in enough states such that the deserved winner of the presidential election is unknowable.
The letter also alleges that I claimed Dominion is responsible for voter fraud and irregularities. This is also a lie, and the lawyers never cite a specific example of such a statement. All of my work on election irregularities has focused on illegally cast ballots, and I’ve never made any allegations of fraud or irregularities against Dominion.
Their letter goes on to make many other false and misleading claims about my work and me personally. And while others have made accusations about their company, I never have, so I began to wonder, why would they send a letter like this to me?
But then, one of their sentences gives it all away: “We demand you retract calls to boycott Dominion.”
This letter from Dominion has nothing to do with my findings from the 2020 general election, but everything to do with Look Ahead America’s policy objective to ban the use of the black box voting equipment that Dominion sells for hundreds of millions of dollars to state and counties across the country.
Black box voting equipment runs on software and hardware that is a corporate secret and unavailable for examination by government officials and the public. For this principled reason and many others, Look Ahead America is leading the fight against its use in our elections, and our position has broad, bipartisan support and is backed by peer-reviewed science.
And this is the real reason why Dominion is coming after me— because they’re worried about their bottom line and their monopoly on US elections.
I am fortunate enough to be represented by one of our nation’s premier lawyers in this area, Harmeet Dhillon, and her team of expert attorneys, and they are determined to represent our cause.
But I also have my own, direct response to Dominion and their attorneys who, on their very own website, refer to themselves as “assassins”:
I'm not retracting anything. And I’m not going to stop speaking out.
If working for Donald Trump taught me anything, it’s that you never back down, you double down.
Banning black box voting equipment was number three of six election integrity reforms we’ve advocated. It just moved up to #1, and we will not rest until black box voting machines are removed from every election precinct in the country and replaced by open-source platforms that are transparent and demonstrably secure.
First up in our renewed effort is preventing the state of Louisiana from awarding its $100 million voting equipment contract to any black box vendor. Instead, we must insist that any new voting equipment meet the highest standards of transparency and open-source design. In the coming weeks, I will personally travel to Pelican state to organize bi-partisan and non-partisan allies and to rally like-minded activists to petition the legislature and request hearings to accomplish this goal.
If you’re interested in donating to help our legal and organizational efforts or volunteering to help us with our cause, please go to lookaheadamerica.org. Together, we can put black box voting equipment in the dumpster of election history.
America First, America Forever.
Matt Braynard Executive Director Look Ahead America https://www.lookaheadamerica.org/
P.S. - I attached a PDF with Dominion's letter and my lawyer's response included.
P.P.S. - See my video directly addressing Dominion directly here: https://www.lookaheadamerica.org/dominionresponse.
Don't fall for open source, it just moves the problem one step backwards. Don't get me wrong, open source is great, but unless you have a trusted technician review and compile the code on each machine, you have no idea what is actually running on the machine.
Part of the open source code should be a legit system of version control, proper logging, and verifiable automated system audits before and after any key events. If it is truly open, then folks can verify these work properly. There are so many things wrong with Dominion there is no way all of these flaws are a result of mere stupidity.
Seriously, opensource code to do this. Like literally, start a github/gitlab project and samples of scanned ballots from a fast scanner, like one of those duplex top feeding units...
For the physical access / discrepancy problem, why not have two teams scanning in the same ballots. Each from different parties. Break up the ballets into bundles of 500 or so and have both teams scan it and leave the number on the screen. If the numbers are the same or really close, then seal that bundle. All parties ensure that the bundle is marked and cannot be tampered with.
If the whole system is open source software and based on commodity hardware (like less then $5k per setup) what's the harm of two or even three teams all agreeing on the count?
Back to the writers point... Dominion has been a monopoly in this too long. Get a github / gitlab project going and solicit coding help.