Trump and GOP Attacks on Dominion Reveal a Dark Secret About US Elections

The campaign against Dominion Voting Systems is just the latest battle in a decades-long political war.

Republicans including President Donald Trump, backed up by former Assistant US Attorney Sidney Powell, are launching a series of bombastic attacks against an electronic voting system vendor called Dominion Voting Systems. They claim that the company colluded with Democrats to “flip” thousands of Trump votes to Biden, and/or simply manufactured additional Biden votes in order to steal the election.

In short, Powell and GOP leaders are accusing the Democrats of a massive electoral fraud involving thousands of votes across multiple states.

At first blush, these accusations seem as baseless as they are outrageous. But if you review the history of electronic voting systems (EVS) in the US, you can see exactly why the Right is flipping out. It is not just Trump; the entire Republican Party and the conservative establishment really, really REALLY hate Dominion Voting Systems.

Let me explain why.

The origins of “e-voting” in the US

In the early 2000’s electronic voting was a fairly obscure and modest industry, dominated by just a few companies. The 800-lb gorilla in this business was an Omaha-based firm called Electronic Systems & Security, which had by some counts up to 80%…