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Dominion Voting Systems v. MyPillow Guy poses a stark test for America's libel laws
Yahoo Finance ^ | 04/14/2021 | Roger Parloff

Posted on 04/14/2021 9:05:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

“Instantly,” said Steven Bellovin, a professor of computer science at Columbia University with almost 40 years of experience in computer networking and security.

That’s how long it took him to realize, he said in an interview, that a certain purported spreadsheet that I showed him was “not just fake, but a badly generated fake by someone who didn’t know what they were doing.”

The spreadsheet, together with an animated film that was said to illustrate its data, formed the crux of a nearly two-hour “docu-movie,” called “Absolute Proof,” which aired at least 13 times last February on the One America News Network. The movie, presented in a news magazine format, was hosted, co-produced, and relentlessly flacked by Mike Lindell, the irrepressible CEO of MyPillow, Inc. It purported to furnish absolute proof that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump in an international cyberattack exploiting vulnerabilities in voting-machine software that had been intentionally designed to rig elections.

Dominion Voting Systems, which makes voting technology, filed a $1.3 billion defamation suit against Lindell and his company in late February—the third of four massive cases it has filed since the election—in part because of “Absolute Proof,” which referenced Dominion more than 40 times. (An in-depth analysis of Dominion’s suits over bogus election-fraud claims, as well as one brought by a rival voting-device company, Smartmatic, is provided in an earlier story I wrote here: https://www.finance.yahoo.com/rudy-giuliani-sidney-powell-fox-news-sued-by-dominion-smartmatic-102628439.html)

Compared to the other defendants Dominion has sued— Trump’s former personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani; so-called Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell; and conservative news goliath Fox News Network—the MyPillow Guy might seem like a quirky afterthought.

He’s not, though. With a reported net worth of $300 million, Lindell, 59, is the most deep-pocketed of the non-media defendants,

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dominion; drstrangelove; hopium; mikelindell; mikeweirdo; mypillow; qtards; rogerparloff; stevenbellovin; tinfoil
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1 posted on 04/14/2021 9:05:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Ah yes, another “expert”.


2 posted on 04/14/2021 9:12:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The spreadsheet is certainly not fake. It has the real data gathered from the Michigan sources. Thoe same sources, incidentally, showed that at least 10,000 dead people voted. I saved copies of those back in November.

However Dr. Frank is wrong. His entire theory is easy to disprove simply by pointing out the obvious fact that the counting machines do not have access to voters' names, and are not connected with the registry of who votes. That's a separate sytem.

Yes, it is possible the machines counted or created more Biden votes then there actually were. But Frank's silly sixth order polynomial curve fit is not proof of anything. If the libel case goes to court he will lose big time.

3 posted on 04/14/2021 9:12:07 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: palmer

I’m not finding a Dr. Frank in the article. Which side is he on?


4 posted on 04/14/2021 9:22:15 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: SeekAndFind

debunked! next!


5 posted on 04/14/2021 9:25:43 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: SeekAndFind
Lindell then added—as has previously been reported—that he would soon be filing two lawsuits of his own, one against Dominion and a second which “is going directly to the Supreme Court” where “they’re going to take down this election” by a “nine-zero vote.” Trump will be back in office “by August,” he averred.

That's really nutty.

6 posted on 04/14/2021 9:25:57 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: SeekAndFind

Investigators for Attorney DePerno Reportedly Discover Modem Chips Embedded in Michigan Voting System Computer Motherboards

https://davidharrisjr.com/steven/bombshell-investigators-for-attorney-deperno-reportedly-discover-modem-chips-embedded-in-michigan-voting-system-computer-motherboards

Dominion is toast.


7 posted on 04/14/2021 9:36:45 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: palmer
Yes, it is possible the machines counted or created more Biden votes then there actually were.

True, but it also seems most likely any scheme included a real-time, or at least corresponding introduction of phony ballots for every computer spike in Biden votes.

Such would explain poll workers placing cardboard over the observer windows, seemingly closing down vote counting operations and sending the observers home, dark:30am ballot deliveries, more ballots than registered voters, just to name a few.

8 posted on 04/14/2021 9:47:15 AM PDT by frog in a pot (The voters do the heavy lifting...or not.)
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To: joshua c

RE: debunked! next!

I’d like to read their refutations to see if the word “debunked” meets the criteria of the word.


9 posted on 04/14/2021 9:53:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: frog in a pot

Agreed. The fraud was not the counting machines it was the 100,000 fake ballots fed into those machines.

The Dems know this. Any discovery will prove the machines themselves were accurate. That is why they can go on the attack here.

Powell, Lindell, and Fox are going to lose big in these cases. That victory will be used as proof there was no fraud anywhere.


10 posted on 04/14/2021 10:14:04 AM PDT by Renfrew
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To: frog in a pot
True, but it also seems most likely any scheme included a real-time, or at least corresponding introduction of phony ballots for every computer spike in Biden votes.

The most rational assumption is that all of the fraud was created by eal actual phony paper ballots. Most of those were real (not phony) ballots submitted fraudulently, harvested, altered, submitted on behalf of dead people, etc.

Such would explain poll workers placing cardboard over the observer windows,

That's exactly right. Among other things they caused balots to be unreadable in various ways, then transcribed the "unreadable" ballot to a fresh ballot to feed into the machine. All without supervision. They did that in at least Philly and Detroit, and probably elsewhere.

11 posted on 04/14/2021 10:16:35 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: cuban leaf
Dr Frank is on his own side. He has duped Lindell (and many others) into believing his crap. But it is just crap, and that suggests to me he is not on our side. His crap distracts from the actual fraud and the investigations and attempts to prevent that fraud.
12 posted on 04/14/2021 10:18:37 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Renfrew
All correct, unfortunately.

If I were devious and wanted to bias the counting algorithms I could do it. It would certainly not be detectable by Dr Frank. It would however be detectable by some simple tests if my software was captured forensically.

13 posted on 04/14/2021 10:20:56 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: SeekAndFind

With all the evidence on Dominion fraud and the courts look the other way it sure look like the system is rigged the need to be taken down before they can do more damage to the election system.
No more yellow robe justice rulings.


14 posted on 04/14/2021 10:28:57 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: cuban leaf

Dr. Frank is an “add on”. He contacted Mike with “additional” info/theory that tracked with Mike’s research and evidence.

I don’t know about the voracity of Dr. Frank’s info, but he is but a “bit” player in this.

Attacking Dr. Frank is specious. Trying to attack Mike Lindell by attacking Dr. Frank. Curious. Whose side are you people really on?


15 posted on 04/14/2021 10:49:57 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: BenLurkin
“Instantly,” said Steven Bellovin

Yeah, no.

16 posted on 04/14/2021 10:51:04 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind
Roger Parloff is a Democrat Party newspuppet:

https://twitter.com/rparloff

Took five minutes on his Twitter timeline to figure that out.

17 posted on 04/14/2021 10:59:32 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: palmer; Renfrew
The most rational assumption is that all of the fraud was created by eal actual phony paper ballots.

Except for the evidence the computers were unable to process the volume of votes within those spike durations in the normal course; such evidence leaves room to speculate about misuse at the hardware level.

It seems clear the spikes were introduced by actors who, as the record shows was possible, were perhaps assisted (at a minimum) by Dominion literature.

Powell, Lindell, and Fox are going to lose big in these cases.

Not sure about Lindell, think Fox has a better shot (although certainly the MSM would be delighted to see them vanish) and feel confident with the quality of evidence Powell and Flynn have.

18 posted on 04/14/2021 11:03:20 AM PDT by frog in a pot (The voters do the heavy lifting...or not.)
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To: Renfrew

“Agreed. The fraud was not the counting machines it was the 100,000 fake ballots fed into those machines.”

It was a MASSIVE fraud by “Every Which Way You Can”.

Not just one way, every conceivable way. All working together to try and stay under the radar.

They were manipulating votes. Moving them around as needed. Real votes, fake votes, manufactured votes, duplicated votes, but actual votes not just numbers.

The people on the ground produced the ballots, the machines and software moved them around, count wise, in real time to try to avoid “the impossible” which would be proof of fraud.

Its complicated! There is no ONE THING.


19 posted on 04/14/2021 11:03:50 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Hostage
Investigators for Attorney DePerno Reportedly Discover Modem Chips Embedded in Michigan Voting System Computer Motherboards

They discovered something that's in the Dominion manuals and machine specs? Those are some crack investigators.

20 posted on 04/14/2021 11:14:16 AM PDT by semimojo
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