Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos has expressed concerns about the future of the company, citing the significant damage it has sustained following the 2020 presidential election.
Despite a recent defamation victory against Fox News, in which the news outlet was ordered to pay Dominion $787.5 million, Poulos believes that the public backlash against the company will lead to potential customers seeking alternative voting systems.
In a recent interview with Time magazine, Poulos gave a strikingly pessimistic tone about the future of the voting machine company.
Poulos stated that the negative perception surrounding Dominion may deter future customers from choosing their systems, even when it comes time to replace outdated systems for certification and obsolescence reasons.
“Whenever the next time a customer chooses to buy a new system—because every eight years or so, you replace your voting system for obsolescence and for certification issues—they’ll just say, ‘Man, it’s just not worth going through the hassle just to buy Dominion,’” Poulos anticipates. “They might be a little less expensive, they might be a little more functional, their service offering might be a little better. But it’s so much brain damage working with them because of the public outcry.”
“It’s just easier for our customers to use something that’s not Dominion,” Poulos says. “We just know that our business ultimately goes to zero.”
CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, John Poulos, has expressed concerns about the future of the company, citing the significant damage it has sustained following the 2020 presidential election. Despite a recent defamation victory against Fox News, in which the news outlet was ordered to pay Dominion $787.5 million, Poulos believes that the public backlash against the company will lead to potential customers seeking alternative voting systems.
Poulos stated that the negative perception surrounding Dominion may deter future customers from choosing their systems, even when it comes time to replace outdated systems for certification and obsolescence reasons. He explained, “They’ll just say, ‘Man, it’s just not worth going through the hassle just to buy Dominion.'”
Shasta County, California, recently made headlines by abruptly terminating its contract with Dominion, exemplifying the diminishing confidence in the company. Shasta County’s Board Chair Patrick Jones believes that removing all machines from elections will increase trust in the results.
Poulos complained about the negative publicity the company has drawn due to contentious elections, saying, “By accusing us of the greatest American crime in history, it turned us, as one of our customers has described, as the most demonized brand in the United States.”
He believes that eventually, all Dominion customers will seek alternatives, and it’s only a matter of time.
Initially, Dominion had demanded $1.6 billion from Fox News, an amount 42 times larger than the acquisition cost of its parent firm, Staple Street Capital, in 2018. However, Dominion’s projected revenues for 2022 were estimated at $98 million.
Dominion Voting Systems is still engaged in six other defamation cases, which include legal actions against Newsmax and One America News. The high-profile defamation lawsuit against Fox News garnered significant attention and resulted in the disclosure of text messages and emails that revealed doubts within the network about the election fraud claims it had propagated.
Just before the highly anticipated trial was set to begin, the parties involved reached a historic settlement for approximately $787.5 million. Smartmatic, another election technology company, is pursuing its own $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, which is currently progressing through the legal process.
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