A sample ballot is shown via the Dominion Voting Systems that Georgians use to vote. On Christmas morning of 2020, a recreational vehicle exploded on the streets of Nashville near a building owned by AT&T that lies one block from the companys office tower. City Blue Imaging Services' Facebook, Dec. 27. "AT&T got a contract to do forensic audit on Dominion voting machines and those machines were being moved to Nashville this past week," one Dec. 27 post says. The location of the heavily damaged buildings seen in the photograph accompanying the post appear to show 170 to 176 2nd Avenue North in Nashville after the explosion. Its disgusting. "And I probably will. Spokespeople for both AT&T and Dominion told USA TODAY that AT&T was not contracted to audit Dominion voting machines, and no Dominion voting machines were being held in the AT&T building outside of which the RV exploded. There can still be security holes that allow hackers to get into the phone network.. But companies that specialize in the subject said it is getting exponentially worse. Dominion is a company that supplies voting machines in more than two-dozen states, including Ohio. So, the explosion just happened to be at the AT&T location where they just so happen to control the cooling system for the super computer and house the dominion voting machines and drives for forensic audit, Wait, the bombing in Nashville was at the AT&T data center right after they got the contract to audit the Dominion voting machines? read another post. Lindell told the Minnesota Reformer, that he and a friend were on their way home from duck hunting in Iowa and were in the Hardee's drive through when three cars with four FBI agents surrounded his vehicle. As of now, the person of interest identified by the FBI in connection with the explosion, Anthony Quinn Warner, is believed to have been "paranoid about 5G technology" (another frequent subject of conspiracy theories) rather than possessing any election-related motive. Reuters found no evidence that Cerberus Capital Management (www.cerberus.com/) owns Dominion. This material may not be reproduced without permission. The West Bend clerk wrote, "The wrong marking device was used to mark the . Joe Bidens Brother in Law, Steven Owens, is the cofounder of Staple Street Execs along with William Kennard (mentioned above).. "When we're in the realm of coupling disinformation from both foreign and domestic sources, and government and nongovernment sources, and none of it is really grounded in reality evidence doesn't help much," he said. The bomb squad was en route. That flood reached Dominion the week after the election, according to Zignal, and misinformation related to the company's machines has been mentioned more than 10 million times since then. Detailed voter instructions for the Infinity voting unit, How to Vote an Optical Scan Ballot with Unisyn Equipment, Public Records Policy and Records Request Form. Dominion Voting Systems previously sent OAN letters threatening to sue, accusing the network of spreading the unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that the election-technology company manipulated. He claimed on his podcast that he'd infiltrated a call with Denver-area antifa members that included a man identified as "Eric from Dominion.". In counties that didn't use Dominion systems, Biden got 1.54 million votes to Trump's 1.52 million. It was an assurance designed to bolster public confidence in the way America votes: Voting machines are not connected to the internet.. The cities of West Bend and Mequon's Dominion machine audit found one vote changed each after their hand counts. "Anthony Warner is the bomber. This references the claim that supercomputer Hammer and software program Scorecard were used to change votes in Bidens favor in the 2020 Presidential election. In a Dominion-themed segment, an Infowars host speaking during a November Washington, D.C., rally presaged the January 6 violence by hyping the . See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. "Very, very interesting.". Much of the voting equipment was by Dominion. This screengrab is being shared on social media without that context. Since the 2016 election, Michigan authorized $82 million dollars to upgrade its election systems. A spokesperson for Dominion Voting Systems confirmed to Reuters via email that the Stephen Owens at Staple Street has no family ties or business affiliations with Bidens sister, Valerie Biden Owens. Hart said that it has approximately 1,600 such tabulators in use in 11 counties in Michigan. The FBI confirmed that a man named Anthony Warner was responsible for the bombing and was killed in the blast. It is true Kennard serves on the board of Staple Street Capital (not Staple Street execs as the posts say). A team of election security experts used a Google for servers to challenge claims that voting machines do not connect to the internet and found some did. That's false. Shortly afterwards, social media users began circulating variants of a conspiracy theory holding that AT&T had been engaged to undertake a "forensic audit of Dominion voting machines," the latter of which were frequent targets of false election fraud claims made by President Donald Trump and his supports after Trump lost his re-election bid in November 2020: The implication of the conspiracy theory was that the explosion had been intended to destroy the machines before they were audited in order to cover up evidence of massive voting fraud. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. The post implies that the bombing was an attempt to stop the audit and cover up voter fraud. On Christmas Day, an RV in Nashville, Tennessee, exploded, severelydamaging many of the buildings around it in the explosion. The post's creator did not respond to USA TODAY's request for comment. Dominion Voting Systems, a company beset by dubious election fraud claims in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, said "human error" was to blame after machines in a Pennsylvania. IE 11 is not supported. More than a month ago, Eric Coomer went into hiding. It also claims the AT&T building that was affected by the bomb is where those machines were being stored. (Read more about, Breaking news meme generators are frequently used online to create fabricated headlines and chyrons such as this one. False. An executive for a voting machine company that has been the target of conspiracy theories in the aftermath of Donald Trump's 2020 election loss and been baselessly accused of swinging the. Rumors about an investigation into the company do not even appear in web searches until after the fire. By Helen Coster and Jack Queen (Reuters) -A new filing from Dominion Voting Systems became public on Monday, as an April trial approaches in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by the voting technology company against Fox News over the U.S. cable news giant's coverage of the 2020 presidential election. But none of this is true. Dominion did not respond to numerous requests from NBC News for their sales numbers. "The loud speaker was to warn people that the bomb was going to go off.. 5:30a on Christmas morning was picked to ensure that nobody was around.. "You can see as theres a line flying in, theres a little bit of a glow and then theres the explosion," a narrator says in the video. In the weeks following the election, the election technology firm Dominion Voting Systems has been the target of baseless allegations of election fraud, according to the Washington Post.Now a viral Facebook post attempts to connect President-elect Joe Biden to the company by claiming his sister is married to Stephen Owens, who, the post alleges, owns Dominion Voting Systems. Representatives for companies involved say there is no truth to the claims. AT&T had a contract to conduct a forensic audit of Dominion Voting Systems in Nashville just prior to a December 2020 explosion in that city. And we knew that wasn't true. Cynthia McFadden is the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News. Trump has repeatedly made comments about Dominion's voting machines and retweeted reports perpetuating the conspiracy theory, calling the company's voting machines "a disaster all over the . "Coincidence? Georgia, the site of so much controversy in the 2020 election, hurriedly switched in response to a judge's order in 2019 from all-electronic voting machines to Dominion models that. This is bogus. Reuters debunked this claim here . A sample ballot is shown via the Dominion Voting Systems that Georgians use to vote. Rating: False About this rating On Christmas. "What we should do is remove all of the unnecessary, hackable pathways, such as modems. AT&T did not have a contract to audit Dominion machines and was not holding Dominion machines in its Nashville building, both companies confirmed to The Associated Press. "So, the explosion just happened to be at the AT&T location where they just so happen to control the cooling system for the super computer and house the dominion voting machines and drives for forensic audit", "Wait, the bombing in Nashville was at the AT&T data center right after they got the contract to audit the Dominion voting machines?,"onefrom Dec. 26 reads. And I don't know that all these jurisdictions are aware of that because ES&S is advertising otherwise.. View list by county(.pdf) and learn more about each system using the links below. AP'S ASSESSMENT: False. Kevin Monahan is a producer for the NBC News Investigative Unit. These are real, tangible things coming out of these baseless accusations.". CLAIM: AT&T got a contract to do a forensic audit of Dominion Voting Systems machines and those machines were recently moved . Examples can be seen here , here and here . One of the co-founders of Staple Street Capital (staplestreetcapital.com/ ), not Staple Street execs, Hootan Yaghoobzadeh, worked at Cerberus prior to starting Staple Street in 2009 (here). There is no evidence that suggests that the explosion was election-related. And thats not what were about. Some of the posts (here) say: Dominion voting is owned by Cerberus Capital Management. Cerberus is run by Staple Street Execs. Whether it's the standard online trolls, voicemails that are left almost on a daily basis, being called a traitor to this country, I can't even begin to describe what effect this has had on my life," he said. Conspiracy theorists say the suicide bombing that rocked downtown Nashville was actually the result of a missile strike.