# Dominion Voting

> Dominion Voting Systems supplied election hardware, ballot-marking devices, tabulators and election management software to public election authorities in the United States and Canada. Acquired and rebranded as Liberty Vote in October 2025, its product lineage includes Democracy Suite, ImageCast and the AuditMark digital ballot audit trail.

- **Founded:** 2003
- **Headquarters:** Denver, United States
- **Founders:** John Poulos (Co-founder; former president and CEO), James Hoover (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Democracy Suite Election Management System, ImageCast X, ImageCast Precinct / Precinct 2, ImageCast Central, ImageCast Evolution
- **Notable:** Built an election hardware and software business serving U.S. and Canadian authorities., Democracy Suite 5.5-D received EAC certification on June 8, 2022., Pennsylvania certified Democracy Suite 5.17 on August 7, 2024.

## Products & services

- **Democracy Suite Election Management System** — Election definition, ballot preparation, tabulation and results reporting around a shared election database.
- **ImageCast X** — Configurable ballot-marking device with touchscreen, audio and alternative accessibility inputs; the current Liberty Vote brochure promotes a Uniform Ballot without barcodes or QR codes. Existing certified deployments can differ.
- **ImageCast Precinct / Precinct 2** — Polling-place optical scanners for hand-marked and machine-marked paper ballots; Precinct 2 adds updated hardware and ballot-image records.
- **ImageCast Central** — Central-count software and commercial scanner configurations for batches of absentee, mail and precinct ballots.
- **ImageCast Evolution** — Integrated precinct optical scanner and accessible ballot-marking device.
- **AuditMark** — Appends the tabulator’s interpretation to a stored digital ballot image; adjudicated ballots receive an additional record.
- **Automated Test Decks** — Generates marked test ballots with known outcomes from the election database for logic and accuracy testing.
- **Frontier 1.0** — Liberty Vote system submitted for VVSG 2.0 testing on November 25, 2025; EAC listed it as Systems Under Test with Test Plan Approved in September 2026.

## Achievements

- Built an election hardware and software business serving U.S. and Canadian authorities.
- Democracy Suite 5.5-D received EAC certification on June 8, 2022.
- Pennsylvania certified Democracy Suite 5.17 on August 7, 2024.
- Reached a $787.5 million Fox News defamation settlement in April 2023.
- Liberty Vote submitted Frontier 1.0 for VVSG 2.0 testing in November 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Scott Leiendecker’s Liberty Vote acquired Dominion and rebranded the business; transaction price was not disclosed.
- **2025-11** — Frontier 1.0 testing application submitted to the EAC on November 25.
- **2026-02** — EAC accepted Frontier 1.0’s application on February 19.
- **2026-09** — EAC’s Frontier 1.0 entry dated September 15 lists Systems Under Test and Test Plan Approved, not certification.

## Links

- Website: https://libertyvote.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dominion-voting-systems/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/dominionvoting
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dominion-Voting-488814111214058/

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Last updated: 2026-09-30