John Poulos built Dominion Voting around a promise that the count could be checked. When false election claims engulfed his company, he discovered how much harder it is to make a correction stick.
He built a company to make elections verifiable. Then Antonio Mugica discovered how far the argument can travel from the machinery.
Dominion built machines to count paper ballots. After false claims turned its name into a political weapon, its new owner, Liberty Vote, inherited a harder assignment: making the count believable.
Los Angeles County hired Smartmatic to help turn a public voting-system design into an election-day reality. The result reveals what election technology can improve, what a touchscreen cannot fix, and why the paper still matters.