Exhibit

651

 

Voting

Machine

Supplier

Criticized

by

Trump

in

Spotlight

on

Election

Integrity

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November

17,

2020

A

Dominion

Voting

machine

in

Atlanta.

The

company

says

its

equipment

serves

about

40%

of

U.S.

voters.Photo:

John

Bazemore/Associated

Press

By

Alexa

Corse

Nov.

17,2020

9:46

am

ET

25

Dominion

Voting

Systems

Corp.,

a

little-known

voting-machine

supplier

that

has

come

under

criticism

from

President

Trump,

was

a

linchpin

in

the

2020

election

that

federal

and

state officials

praise

as

being

free

from

tampering.

Denver-based

Dominion

says

its

voting

equipment

serves

about

40%

of

U.S.

voters,

spread

across

parts

of

28 states

and

Puerto

Rico.

In

Georgia,

the

company

landed

a

roughly

$100

million

contract

to

modernize

the state’s

election

systems

before

this

year’s

vote.

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records

of

votes

generated

by

Dominion

machines

are

part

of

Georgia's

ongoing,

by-hand

recount

of

the

presidential

race,

in

which

President-elect

Joe

Biden

leads Mr.

Trump

by

roughly 14,000

votes.

As

he

contests

the

outcome

of

the

election, Mr.

Trump

has

lashed

out

at

Dominion,

tweeting

and

retweeting

comments

about

the

company

at

least

a

dozen

times

over

the

past

week

and

calling

its

equipment

“not

good

or

secure.”

He

has

promoted

unproven

allegations

about

the

company

that

Dominion

voting

machines

deleted

millions

of

votes

for

him

and

switched

some

of

those

votes

to

President-elect

Joe

Biden.

A

phalanx

of

federal

agencies,

state officials

across

the

country overseeing

elections

and

voting-equipment

vendors

said

last

week

that

“there’s no

evidence

that

any voting

system

deleted

or

lost

votes,

changed

votes,

or

was

in

any

way

compromised.”

Their

statement

didn’t

mention

Mr.

Trump.

Dominion

is

now

battling

to

assure

Americans

that

the

election

was

secure and

without

major

problems.

“The

conspiracy

theories circulating

about

Dominion

and,

frankly,

the

integrity

of

the

U.S.

election

system,

are

dangerous

and absurd,”

Dominion CEO

John

Poulos

said

in

an

interview.

The

company

published

a

fact

sheet

to

rebut

several

claims

about

the

accuracy

of

vote

tallies

and

its

operations,

calling

itself

a

“nonpartisan

U.S.

company”

that

“works

with

all

political

parties.”

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