Liminal News

10/11/2025

In the blizzard of destruction and misdirection that we’re facing daily now, perhaps the most important story from last week received little mass media attention: The voting company, Dominion, which handles the voting technology in 27 states, just sold to a former Republican election official. Axios reports:

Liberty Vote purchased Canada-based Dominion for an undisclosed sum, according to a person familiar with the transaction. Liberty is a new company owned by Scott Leiendecker, who in 2011 created a software program focused on enabling election workers to verify voters and check them in at polling locations…

Matt Blunt, who was then Missouri’s Republican secretary of state, appointed Leiendecker to a role investigating St. Louis’ elections administration after the 2000 election. As governor, Blunt later appointed Leiendecker to be St. Louis’ Republican election director. Ed Martin, a loyal Trump surrogate, was St. Louis’ Board of Elections’ chair when Leiendecker was the city’s election director.” As interim U.S. attorney for D.C. in Trump’s current administration, Martin demoted prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases, pursued critics of Elon Musk’s DOGE operation, and threatened Wikipedia over what he called biased “propaganda.”

I don’t know why, but reading that most of the U.S. voting system is now controlled by partisan Right Wing operatives (from a party that no longer believes in Democracy or elections) doesn’t exactly fill me with a sense of trust in the future security of our voting system. To be honest, I already didn’t trust that our voting system gave us the correct results in 2024. All of the swing states seemed won by a suspicious, near identical margin, while many people mysteriously split their vote, choosing Democratic candidates on the bottom of the ticket while voting for Trump at the top. Statistically, this seemed improbable (however, a quick inquiry with Chat-GPT disputes these claims). I have mentioned that the Right Wing playbook is “DARVO” – “Defend, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.” Trump publicly attacked the validity of Dominion voting systems after his 2020 loss. Now most of the country’s voting machinery is in Republican hands.

This also needs to be integrated in the strategies “we, the people,” employ in any future efforts to thwart totalitarian takeover and establish authentic participatory democracy. As Illinois Governor Pritzker and California Governor Newsom have noted, one reason for the military invasion into “blue” cities could be preparation to steal or obstruct future elections. But even that is just play-acting, kayfabe, if they have locked up the voting technology behind the scenes.

Still, the mass of popular sentiment matters. If Trump or the next MAGA candidate has lost popular support and stands to be resoundingly defeated, it will be very difficult for the Right to obscure that reality, no matter how they slice and dice it. At some point, masses of people will be extremely pissed.