Mike Lindell is certainly not experiencing anything resembling a gentle or forgiving resolution to his ongoing legal entanglements. On Thursday, a significant shift occurred in the election technology landscape when Liberty Vote finalized its purchase of Dominion Voting Systems — the same company that only recently made headlines for achieving a monumental $787.5 million defamation settlement against Fox News. This extraordinary payout, one of the largest of its kind in U.S. media history, stemmed from allegations that Fox had broadcast and amplified false claims suggesting Dominion’s machines were involved in manipulating the 2020 presidential election results.
In the period leading up to this landmark acquisition, Dominion strategically and quietly resolved a number of other defamation cases against prominent individuals and networks that had similarly propagated conspiracy theories concerning alleged election fraud. The company, maintaining a deliberate posture of discretion, reached confidential settlements that effectively concluded drawn-out legal battles with several high-profile defendants. Among them were Rudy Giuliani and attorney Sidney Powell — both central figures in the effort to challenge President Donald Trump’s election loss — each originally targeted by Dominion in billion-dollar lawsuits amounting to $1.3 billion apiece. Then, in a separate arrangement finalized earlier this month, Dominion also settled its $1.6 billion defamation action against the conservative outlet One America News, marking yet another quiet yet consequential close to a chapter in its extensive litigation campaign.
Unlike the heavily publicized Fox News settlement in 2023 — which unfolded before a Delaware trial and featured a remarkable press conference, drawing national attention both for its financial scale and symbolic value — the agreements with Giuliani, Powell, and OAN have kept their financial terms under wraps. This secrecy contrasts sharply with Dominion’s prior transparency after its deal with Fox, and with another substantial $67 million settlement it reached with Newsmax earlier this year. Collectively, these outcomes have demonstrated Dominion’s calculated approach to simultaneously protecting its reputation and prosecuting misinformation, while efficiently extricating itself from a multitude of contentious lawsuits.
Still, Dominion’s legal journey is not yet complete. Court documents show that the company continues to pursue its defamation case against Mike Lindell, the outspoken CEO of MyPillow, who has persisted in asserting — without credible evidence — that Dominion’s technology was used to manipulate votes in the 2020 election. Another ongoing case involves Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock.com, who remains locked in his own legal confrontation with Dominion. As of Thursday, both of these high-profile disputes continue to loom large despite the corporate transition.
In an interview conducted that same day, Lindell — who has countersued Dominion — insisted that he had received no communication or settlement offers from either Dominion or its new parent company, Liberty Vote. He also maintained that he intends to keep investing vast sums of his personal fortune, reportedly tens of millions of dollars, into ongoing legal efforts aimed at dismantling what he perceives as systemic failures within America’s election infrastructure. His rhetoric remained characteristically incendiary, declaring that he will not cease his efforts until every electronic voting machine in the nation has been completely eliminated, dramatically asserting that the machines should quite literally be melted down and repurposed as prison bars. “The computers need to go, or we lose our country,” Lindell told Business Insider, doubling down on his longstanding narrative that electronic vote-counting technology fundamentally threatens the integrity of democracy.
Lindell’s defiance, however, has come at substantial personal and professional cost. Earlier in July, a Colorado jury determined that he had defamed former Dominion executive Eric Coomer, delivering another legal setback for the entrepreneur. Only one month later, a Minnesota judge separately ruled that Lindell had defamed Smartmatic — another election technology firm that, much like Dominion, had been ensnared in baseless 2020 conspiracy theories. The string of verdicts underscores the legal peril that now defines Lindell’s ongoing campaign and further isolates him as other defendants have opted to resolve their disputes quietly out of court.
Meanwhile, the acquisition itself represents a major development within the election technology industry. The initial report of Dominion’s sale to Liberty Vote came from Axios. Rich Chrismer, speaking on behalf of Liberty Vote, declined to comment on any specifics regarding settlement terms or litigation strategy, maintaining silence on how the company intends to handle the unresolved lawsuits. By contrast, Stephanie Lambert, the attorney representing Patrick Byrne, expressed publicly that her client remains prepared and even eager to have his day in court.
Liberty Vote, now Dominion’s parent entity, is led by Scott Leiendecker — a veteran election administrator who previously served as the Republican director on the St. Louis City Board of Elections. His professional history includes overseeing Kosovo’s first parliamentary election in 2010, an international assignment reflecting his long-standing involvement in the mechanics of democratic governance. Upon completing the acquisition, Liberty Vote released a statement declaring, “As of today, Dominion is gone,” signaling both a symbolic and operational transition of ownership and control. The press release emphasized Leiendecker’s mission to restore faith in the electoral process through enhanced transparency, greater security, and trustworthy voting systems — notably including the continued use of hand-marked paper ballots as an additional safeguard.
However, Lindell quickly made it clear that Leiendecker’s background as a Republican election official would not deter him from his uncompromising crusade to eliminate all voting machines from U.S. elections, regardless of whether those systems are used simply to tabulate paper ballots. In remarks to Business Insider, Lindell remained adamant: “You put down that I was very defiant, and I will not back down,” he insisted, rejecting any notion that a new owner might seek to negotiate peace. He imagined, with characteristic bravado, a hypothetical overture from Leiendecker asking him to end his campaign in exchange for dropped litigation — then vehemently dismissed it, stating, “It ain’t happening.”
Dominion’s historic $787.5 million settlement with Fox News continues to stand as the most substantial publicly acknowledged defamation resolution to date, not only cementing its place in modern legal history but also securing a tremendous financial return for its former private equity owner, Staple Street Capital. In what proved to be an extraordinarily lucrative outcome, Staple Street’s 76% stake in Dominion reportedly yielded a 1,442% return on investment following the deal — a reflection of both the unprecedented size of the settlement and the broader implications it carried for corporate accountability and the economics of misinformation litigation.
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