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Dominion Voting Systems crushed truth-tellers under a blizzard of lawsuits for daring to expose its shadowy role in the 2020 election steal.
Patriots who questioned the company's machines — accused of flipping votes like a rigged casino — faced ruinous defamation suits that silenced networks, shredded reputations, and buried investigations.
Speak the name "Dominion," and risk bankruptcy unless you parroted the Big Lie of Joe Biden's miraculous, historic, and unmathematical triumph.
Now, in a seismic pivot, this election colossus, once untouchable, is selling out to a Trump-aligned outfit, signaling the worm turns as accountability looms.
Liberty Vote, a fresh Missouri startup, snapped up the Canada-based Dominion for an undisclosed sum, sources confirm.
The buyer: Scott Leiendecker, Republican election veteran and founder of KNOWiNK, a poll-book giant boasting 150 staffers and $55 million in yearly revenue. Its tech powers voter check-ins across a third of U.S. states.
Dominion was valued at $80 million in a 2018 private equity buyout by Staple Street Capital.
The purchase price for Leiendecker's Liberty Vote acquisition of Dominion Voting Systems remains undisclosed, according to multiple sources including Axios, CNN, The Guardian, and The New York Times.
Leiendecker privately financed the deal as the sole owner, with no financial terms released in the October 9, 2025, announcement.
Leiendecker's GOP roots run deep.
Missouri's ex-Gov. Matt Blunt tapped him in 2000 to probe St. Louis election woes as secretary of state, then named him the city's Republican election director.
Ed Martin, Trump's current interim D.C. U.S. attorney, who now targets Jan. 6 prosecutors, chaired St. Louis elections during Leiendecker's tenure.
Liberty pitches Leiendecker as a bipartisan referee.
Nevada Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar backs him, assuring Leiendecker is "open, honest and transparent."
The firm vows a paper-ballot overhaul, echoing Trump's war on machines he brands insecure.
Election pros counter that e-systems hold firm, while paper trails just delay tallies without boosting safety.
"Liberty Vote signals a new chapter for American elections — one where trust is rebuilt from the ground up," Leiendecker told Axios, contending his company is, "committed to delivering election technology that prioritizes paper-based transparency, security and simplicity so that voters can be assured that every ballot is filled-in accurately and fairly counted."
A Liberty rep promised a "top-down" audit of Dominion gear before 2026 midterms: "rebuild or retire" as required.
Dominion waged a vengeance tour against 2020 skeptics.
Fox News folded in 2023, coughing up $787.5 million after hosts amplified Trump's charges of a Biden-rigging plot.
Insiders warn Fox borrowed nearly $1 billion from China to foot the bill — Beijing bankrolling the muzzle on election doubts.
Newsmax caved in August 2024, paying $67 million to kill its suit with Dominion.
Rudy Giuliani settled his $1.3 billion defamation bomb in September 2024; terms sealed, but the filing noted, "The Parties have agreed to a confidential settlement to this matter."
Sidney Powell inked an undisclosed deal on her $1.3 billion tab.
One America News Network escaped its $1.6 billion noose via a quiet payout.
Dominion CEO John Poulos lamented the smears wrecked his firm's name and nearly doomed it.
Even Patrick Byrne, ex-Overstock boss turned election sleuth, drew fire: Dominion slapped him with a $1.7 billion suit in 2021 for fraud claims.
He boasts "100 percent of the evidence" on machine hacks — from Serbian virtual machines zapping votes post-polls to Chinese military fingerprints.
"They're all going to end up in prison," Byrne warns. "Fox accepted a billion dollars from China to pay off Dominion... China loaned them a billion dollars that they could turn around and pay off the $800 million settlement."
Michigan forensics, he says, nailed the steal; clerks defied cover-up orders, unearthing hack remnants. "It was absolutely stolen," Byrne insists. "We have it all."
Staple Street Partners held Dominion's reins since 2018.
As Trump 2.0 dawns, skeptics smell reckoning.
Will Liberty's broom sweep clean — or just rebrand the rot?
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