Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

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https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/dominion-voting-machines-sold-elections

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Dominion Voting Systems — the voting machine behemoth that President Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election — has been sold to a Missouri-based company run by a former Republican election official, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

Zoom in: Liberty Vote purchased Canada-based Dominion for an undisclosed sum, according to a person familiar with the transaction.

Liberty is owned by Scott Leiendecker, who in 2011 created a software program focused on enabling election workers to verify voters and check them in at polling locations.

According to Leiendecker's LinkedIn page, his company (which has been called KNOWiNK but is changing its name to Liberty Vote) has more than 150 employees and $55 million in annual revenue.
The company says its systems are used by election officials in more than a third of U.S. states and describes itself as the "nation's leading provider of electronic poll books."

Zoom out: Leiendecker also has deep Republican connections.

Matt Blunt, who was then Missouri's Republican secretary of state, appointed Leiendecker to a role investigating St. Louis' elections administration after the 2000 election.

As governor, Blunt later appointed Leiendecker to be St. Louis' Republican election director.

Ed Martin, a loyal Trump surrogate, was St. Louis' Board of Elections' chair when Leiendecker was the city's election director.

As interim U.S. attorney for D.C. in Trump's current administration, Martin demoted prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases, pursued critics of Elon Musk's DOGE operation, and threatened Wikipedia over what he called biased "propaganda."

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