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.
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.