{"id":22569,"date":"2026-06-26T15:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22569"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:32:45","slug":"voting-machine-company-drops-1b-defamation-suit-against-mike-lindell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22569","title":{"rendered":"Voting machine company drops $1B defamation suit against Mike Lindell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The voting machine company formerly known as Dominion Voting Systems on Wednesday dropped its billion-dollar defamation lawsuit against Trump ally Mike Lindell, eight months after the company was purchased by a former Republican election official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A jury last year issued a $2.3 million judgment against Lindell after finding he had defamed a former Dominion Voting Systems director with claims of election fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A judge last September also found that Lindell defamed the voting company Smartmatic with similar false claims, but has not yet determined a dollar amount for damages. Earlier, Lindell was ordered to pay Smartmatic more than $50,000 in sanctions as a result of a &#8220;frivolous&#8221; countersuit he filed against the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/voting-machine-company-drops-1b-224625449.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/voting-machine-company-drops-1b-224625449.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The voting machine company formerly known as Dominion Voting Systems on Wednesday dropped its billion-dollar defamation lawsuit against Trump ally Mike Lindell, eight months after the company was purchased by a former Republican election official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A jury last year issued a $2.3 million judgment against Lindell after finding he had defamed a former Dominion Voting Systems director with claims of election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>A judge last September also found that Lindell defamed the voting company Smartmatic with similar false claims, but has not yet determined a dollar amount for damages. Earlier, Lindell was  ordered to pay Smartmatic more than $50,000 in sanctions as a result of a &#8220;frivolous&#8221; countersuit he filed against the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/voting-machine-company-drops-1b-224625449.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[951,198,915,1619,125,506,479],"class_list":["post-22569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-justice","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-republicans","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22570,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569\/revisions\/22570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}