Dominion Voting Systems
US voting-machine maker, now Liberty Vote; Fox settled its 2020 defamation suit for $787.5m.
Fox News agreed to pay Dominion $787.5m on 18 April 2023 to settle its defamation suit over 2020 broadcast claims, and Newsmax agreed to pay $67m in August 2025; since October 2025 the company has been owned through Liberty Vote.
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John Poulos and James Hoover founded the company in Toronto in 2002; it also had offices in Denver. In October 2025 Scott Leiendecker, a former St. Louis elections director, bought it under a new firm, Liberty Vote, Colorado Public Radio reported.
Machine claims after the 2020 election centred on Dominion. Fox News agreed to pay it $787.5m on 18 April 2023, on the eve of trial in Delaware, to settle its defamation suit over 2020 broadcast claims. Newsmax agreed to pay $67m in August 2025.
The settlements made the machine claim a liability for those who repeated it, not a ground for overturning any result. The claim returned on 9 November 2026, when Donald Trump posted that the midterms were all about the machines; no Republican campaign had sued over a 2026 result by 10 November.
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