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TexasTowelie

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Tue Mar 9, 2021, 04:05 PM Mar 2021

How Louisiana's bid for new voting machines fell apart amid baseless fraud allegations

Louisiana’s top elections official, Kyle Ardoin, has known for years the state needed to replace its fleet of aging voting machines. After a previous effort to do so in 2018 was rejected, he officially began the quest again in January, seeking a vendor for the potentially $100 million contract.

But the new effort coincided with a wave of baseless allegations against one of the three bidders, Dominion Voting Systems, that took hold in right-wing media in the wake of Donald Trump’s election loss in November.

At the same time, the two other companies seeking the work halted the process by filing official protests of the plan. And Republican state lawmakers, many of whom were inundated with calls from constituents demanding the state not hire Dominion, slowed the process down, seeking more oversight and public hearings on the contract.

As pressure mounted, Ardoin faced the prospect of failing to get approval from the legislative budget committee whose OK he needed. Last week, he abandoned the effort.

Read more: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_fc7c4008-7e14-11eb-b1d7-3734976f1a47.html

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How Louisiana's bid for new voting machines fell apart amid baseless fraud allegations (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP
Add that to the bill of the Pillow Guy,... Rudy Tudy ... & that crazy QAnon lawyer Sidney Powell,... magicarpet Mar 2021 #1
and this is why Dominion has filed billions of dollars in defamation suits DBoon Mar 2021 #2

magicarpet

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1. Add that to the bill of the Pillow Guy,... Rudy Tudy ... & that crazy QAnon lawyer Sidney Powell,...
Tue Mar 9, 2021, 04:16 PM
Mar 2021

.... that so be part of the Dominion suit.

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