Rule Ballot Solutions– the ballot device business at the facility of incorrect 2020 political election fraudulence conspiracy theory concepts– has actually been offered to an apparently brand-new political election business run by a previous Republican politician political election authorities, according to an individual accustomed to the sale.
John Poulos, the previous Rule chief executive officer, verified the sale in a declaration.
” Freedom Ballot has actually obtained Rule Ballot Solutions,” Poulos stated.
Ballot systems made by Rule, among the most-used ballot device firms in the united state, were made use of in 27 states in throughout the 2024 political election.
In a declaration, Freedom Ballot stated it is started and run by Scott Leiendecker, whose LinkedIn account claims he functioned as the political election supervisor for the city of St. Louis till 2012. Newspaper article from the moment suggest he was a Republican politician.
In 2011, Leiendecker developed a ballot devices business, KNOWiNK, utilizing a modern technology his LinkedIn web page claims “has actually changed the political election experience for citizens.”
Rule Ballot Solutions ballot-counting makers are aligned at a Torrance Area stockroom throughout screening of political election devices with regional prospects and partial police officers in Estancia, N.M., Sept. 29, 2022.
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The rate of the sale was not instantly revealed, and the web site for Rule currently reroutes to the web site for Freedom Ballot.
Rule in 2023 resolved a character assassination legal action versus Fox Information for $787 million after the business implicated Fox of purposefully pressing incorrect conspiracy theory concepts that the ballot device business set up the 2020 governmental political election for Joe Biden over Donald Trump.
In current weeks Rule likewise resolved vilification matches with previous Trump-associated lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, though the quantities were not divulged.
In a declaration, Freedom Ballot called its acquisition of Rule “a vibrant and historical relocate to change and boost political election stability in America.”
” Since today, Rule is gone,” the declaration stated.
