Dominion Voting Systems, now operating under new ownership as Liberty Vote Holdings, has agreed to dismiss its defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow with prejudice, ending the case without either side paying the other’s legal costs.
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Dominion Voting Systems has agreed to end its defamation case against MyPillow founder Mike Lindell and his company, closing one of the remaining lawsuits tied to claims made after the 2020 presidential election.
The company, now under new ownership and rebranded as Liberty Vote Holdings, agreed to dismiss “all claims and causes of action” against Lindell and MyPillow “with prejudice,” according to a court filing cited in a Law & Crime report.
The dismissal with prejudice means Dominion’s claims cannot be filed again in another lawsuit. The filing also states that each party will cover its own legal expenses.
“Each party shall bear its own attorneys’ fees, expenses, and costs,” the court filing said.
Dominion sued Lindell and MyPillow for $1.3 billion after Lindell made statements about the 2020 election, voting machines and alleged vote fraud. Lindell had argued that the election had been rigged and had continued to criticize voting-machine companies. Dominion’s former owners said those statements were defamatory.
The dismissal follows Dominion’s earlier resolution of claims against Rudy Giuliani, who served for a time as an adviser to President Donald Trump. That case was also resolved under terms involving no payments and no finding of liability. Dominion’s separate defamation case against Fox News ended in a $787 million settlement.
Lindell said the dismissal does not change his position on voting-machine companies.
“It was a nice gesture,” Lindell said of the dropped lawsuit. “I just want everybody to know it doesn’t mean anything that I’m gonna stop fighting these voting-machine companies.”
The legal fight began after the 2020 presidential election, when Lindell and others raised questions about voting procedures and results in several states where Dominion machines were used. Critics of the 2020 election cited issues including simultaneous pauses in vote counting in multiple states on election night, late-counted mail-in ballots, videos of activists depositing multiple ballots, Mark Zuckerberg’s roughly $400 million in funding to election offices, and the FBI’s handling of reports about a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden.
Dominion denied allegations that its machines changed votes or helped rig the election and pursued a series of defamation lawsuits against public figures and media organizations that repeated such claims.
Lindell countersued Dominion, but that effort did not produce the result he sought. Dominion’s original case against Lindell and MyPillow continued until the recent agreement to dismiss it.
The change came after former Republican election official Scott Leiendecker bought Dominion and rebranded the company as Liberty Vote. Leiendecker described the acquisition as “a bold and historic move to transform and improve election integrity in America.”
The result is that Liberty Vote will not seek damages from Lindell or MyPillow in the dismissed case.
An X post highlighted the dismissal after the court filing. Another post referenced Lindell TV’s response to the development.
A statement from Lindell TV said investigators had assembled more than 800 pages of testimony, “five years of compiled research, court records, sworn testimony, government documents, and technical forensics” to support its position.
“People have been told for years there is ‘no evidence.’ This report does not ask you to trust us. It asks you to read the evidence, check the citations, and decide for yourself,” the statement said.
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