On Thursday, news broke that Dominion Voting Systems has been sold to Missouri’s KnowInk, a St. Louis–based election technology firm run by former Republican election official Scott Leiendecker.
KnowInk, which is rebranding as Liberty Vote, is headquartered in St. Louis and was founded by Leiendecker himself.
The new company released a statement.
A release said Liberty Vote is committed to domestic staffing and software development; leveraging hand-marked paper ballots that enable compliance with President Trump’s executive order on paper ballots; incorporating rigorous third-party auditing standards; and designing simplified transparent systems.
In the weeks leading up to the acquisition, Dominion quietly settled several of its high-profile lawsuits against conservatives, including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
However, Dominion did not settle with MyPillow and its CEO, Mike Lindell, and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne.
In an exclusive interview Thursday night, The Gateway Pundit spoke with MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, who made clear he will not be backing down.
Mike Lindell: The first narrative was that they settled with everyone. Then I went on Steve Bannon’s show and I said, “I’m not selling.” I said, “Are you kidding?” I said, “They can go make blenders just because you change the name of a company. We have to get rid of these voting machines in our country.”
I said, “I’m not going to stop till they’re all melted down and turned into prison bars.”
And then Dominion actually called my lawyer and said… they called and said that they thought they had a settlement or something. We were going to settle. We were going to settle with Mike. There’s no settlement. Even if they offered me millions, I wouldn’t settle. Why would I come this far?
Lindell also dismissed media claims that the sale to a “Republican-run company” should ease concerns:
Mike Lindell: And then CNN called me. They go, “Well, Mike, that’s a conservative.” I said, I don’t care who got it… I said, “These unipartite Republicans can be as bad as anyone in the world.”
Anyway, I said, “It doesn’t matter who owns the machines. They’re all the same.” Anyway, they said, Let’s see. CNN said… “And this new company is going to come out, and he’s for paper ballots.” Well, we already have paper ballots. They’re just not hand counted. They’re counted by corrupt machines.
Jim Hoft: You wouldn’t buy Dominion to go to paper ballots. You wouldn’t spend half a billion dollars to put the machines aside.
Mike Lindell: It’s bizarre. This is all it’s set up. It stinks to high heaven… It’s funny because CNN, when they reported it, here’s the funny thing, Jim, why would they report this and not come out and say, Look at Donald Trump’s got this He’s going to control our voting now, too. That would be the narrative of the media on the left, but it’s not. Isn’t that strange?
Jim Hoft: Oh, my God. You nailed it. Yeah. Especially because I saw that this company is going to have their fingers (machines) in 40 different states.
Lindell remains unconvinced the sale is good for the country and vowed to keep fighting for full transparency and hand-counted paper ballots.
As this story develops, Americans will be watching closely to see whether Liberty Vote’s promises of reform lead to real change or simply a rebranding of the same broken system.