Written by André Costa | October 13 2025
Dominion Voting Systems, the company relentlessly targeted by MAGA conspiracy theorists after the 2020 election, has now been bought out by one of their own. The new owner, Liberty Vote, is led by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican election official who once served in St. Louis and later founded KNOWiNK, a company that already provides election technology across the United States. The same movement that called Dominion a tool of fraud now controls the very infrastructure it once vowed to destroy.
In the US media sphere, the headlines are missing any sense of alarm or worry, but this regime having connections to the owner of the very voting machine themselves is a huge problem. While others are talking about this story through the lens of the Fox News defamation suit, we are going to look at the story through the lens of the danger it may present to US democracy, and a little bit of hope that nothing written in this article comes to fruition.
For years, Dominion was the centerpiece of Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen, a lie that was repeated by entities such as Fox News, leading to the aforementioned lawsuit. Those lies led to death threats, lawsuits, and even a violent insurrection. Now, the very people who ‘believed’ that lie have purchased the company they see as a key to fixing an election.
There should be no route to this being possible. In a just and fair world, the voting machines would live in a non-political bubble, with the knowledge that many people would use them to their advantage.
A regime in full power of all branches of government, with a president who has the unchallenged influence to shape government entities, could use these machines to install their absolute control in a manner that can be marketed as a democratic choice. In the event that these machines were to be hacked or tampered with, we would be protected by a post-election audit, much like the one that came following the 2020 election. However, who controls the audit matters, and we have absolutely no idea if that entity will be regime-controlled by the time 2028 rolls in.
Liberty Vote is not a governmental entity, and in a sense that’s a good thing. Voting should be independently controlled, verified and audited, in order to ensure the lack of tampering from an overreaching government. That same caution should also, by default, rule out any people or entity that has a conflict of interest of any kind, voting is too important to take risks, and allowing a friend of the ruling regime to own these machines is a major conflict of interest.
The lie of 2020 didn’t work, or perhaps, didn’t work yet. They told you exactly how important these machines are, and within half a decade, their friend purchased the company. Dictatorship of any kind requires dodgy dealings to take control, business owners who are more than willing to bow down to the authoritarians. We do not know if Liberty Vote will play a fair game, and there is nothing to suggest that they will not at this point, but we have come to a place where we are able to legitimately have a conversation about a conflict of interest in the ownership of voting machines, and that is a risk that no one should play around with.
America’s ballot boxes are no longer neutral by default, we must trust that a friend of the regime will allow their neutrality. The same entities and voices that accused the Democrats of ‘theft’ in 2020, have the ability to commit theft of that same variety, the USA can now just sit back and hope they don’t.