Dominion Voting Systems files billion-dollar lawsuit against MyPillow’s Mike Lindell

Dominion Voting Systems has filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against MyPillow CEO and founder Mike Lindell.

Since President Biden won the presidential election, Lindell has been one of the most vocal conspiracy theorists alleging that former President Donald Trump won the election but that votes were taken from him and given to Biden, propelling the former vice president into the Oval Office. Lindell accused Dominion of participating in this supposedly rigged election, and after a series of threats, the company decided to sue him for defamation on Monday.

The evidence Lindell cites in his theories, Dominion says in the suit, “was deliberately misrepresented, manufactured, cherry-picked, and sourced from con artists and conspiracy theorists who were judicially determined to be ‘wholly unreliable,'” and they argue that “Lindell knows all of this because Dominion wrote to him multiple times, put him on formal written notice of the facts, and told him that Dominion employees were receiving death threats because of the lies.”

The lawsuit notes that if votes were switched through the voting machines, machine tabulations would be different from the paper ballot count.

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“Paper ballots are the hard evidence conclusively disproving Lindell’s claims. If the vote tallies in Dominion machines had been manipulated, the machine tallies would not match the number of votes on the paper ballots. In fact, they do match, as independent audits and hand recounts have repeatedly proven,” the lawsuit said.

The 115-page lawsuit, which seeks $1.3 billion in damages, was filed in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.

“Despite repeated warnings and efforts to share the facts with him, Mr. Lindell has continued to maliciously spread false claims about Dominion, each time giving empty assurances that he would come forward with overwhelming proof,” Dominion CEO John Poulos said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “These claims have caused irreparable harm to Dominion’s good reputation and threatened the safety of our employees and customers. Moreover, Mr. Lindell’s lies have undermined trust in American democracy and tarnished the hard work of local election officials.”

“No amount of money can repair the damage that’s been done by these lies, which are easily disproved. Hundreds of documented audits and recounts have proven that Dominion machines accurately counted votes. We look forward to proving these facts in a court of law.”

Lindell was not the only person to promote such theories about Dominion. The voting company has also sued Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell, another lawyer who promoted such conspiracies. Each lawsuit also sought $1.3 billion.

The MyPillow CEO went further with his claims of a widespread conspiracy after producing a documentary to document his claims. It aired on One America News Network, a far-right media network that promoted the conspiracy theory about Dominion, which has also been warned about a potential suit.

“Mr. Lindell advertised ‘absolute proof,’ but he delivered absolute nonsense and fake documents sourced from the dark corners of the internet,” Dominion legal counsel Megan Meier, Partner at Clare Locke LLP, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “The cartoonish evidence that he offered in his video cannot be reconciled with any level of logic or truth. It would be easy to rack this up as a piece of fiction that is not worth any response — but unfortunately, countless people actually believed it and sent MyPillow some of their hard-earned money as a result. Mike Lindell needs to be held accountable for defaming Dominion and undermining the integrity of our electoral system all the while profiting from it.”

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Lindell previously asked Dominion to sue him because he believes discovery will allow for others to see the supposed evidence he claims the company is hiding.

“That letter is two weeks old, it’s a letter telling me to apologize. It’s a joke,” Lindell told the Washington Examiner. “Those machines are set to rig elections. If Dominion wants to sue me, I welcome it. Please sue me,” he added. “Apparently, nobody wants to see the evidence in the midst of this election fraud. I want everybody to see the evidence.”