Dominion Voting Systems denies financial relationship with Dianne Feinstein's husband

Dominion Voting Systems rebuked claims that the company has a financial relationship with the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein and that the company manipulated the results of the 2020 election. "The company has no financial relationship with Mr. Blum," Kay Stimson, Dominion's vice president of government affairs, told the Dispatch. "This is a false claim spread on social media." Trump legal adviser Sidney Powell said Democrats, including Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, invested in the voting system company to "steal" elections not only from Republicans but from other Democrats. Fox News's Maria Bartiromo said that she had seen reports that Blum was a "significant shareholder" in Dominion and that a former chief of staff for Nancy Pelosi is a "key executive." "They have invested in it for their own reasons and are using it to commit this fraud to steal votes," Powell told Bartiromo during an interview. "I think they’ve even stolen them from other Democrats in their own party, who should be outraged about this also." Powell said that Democrats "had this all planned" and that they inserted ballots filled out only for apparent President-elect Joe Biden when President Trump's vote tally went too high.

Apart from sworn affidavits, at least one of which has been recanted, no evidence of widespread voter fraud has yet been found. Claims of Democrats being involved in Dominion are misleading, the Dispatch reported. It confirmed that Nadeam Elshami, Pelosi's former chief of staff, is a lobbyist for Dominion and reported that Bartiromo "fails to mention that a number of Republican staffers are as well." There is also no evidence to suggest that Blum ever had a financial stake in Dominion. At one point, Blum Capital Partners, a firm chaired by Blum, held a 16.7% stake in Avid Technology, which viral posts alleged developed voting software that was used in Michigan. Those claims are also false, according to a spokesman who told the Dispatch that Avid produces software "to produce music, movies, TV news, and shows," not voting software. The representative also said that Blum Capital Partners "has no holdings in Avid today." Avid is also not connected to Dominion. The Washington Examiner reached out to Dominion for further comment.

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