Historic Fox News settlementThe network has agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million for its role in spreading lies…Show more
Dominion Voting Systems — the voting machine company at the center of false 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories — has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former Republican election official, according to a person familiar with the sale.
John Poulos, the former Dominion CEO, confirmed the sale in a statement.
“Liberty Vote has acquired Dominion Voting Systems,” Poulos said.
Voting rights advocates are sounding the alarm after Trump and House Republicans roll out sweeping changes to how elections are run, Alex Woodward reports
DOJ sues 6 states for private voter data, voting rolls
The abnormal request has previously been opposed by election officials in both parties.
Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to reporters as President Donald Trump listens, June 27, 2025, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP
The Department of Justice is suing six additional states to compel them to share their statewide voter registration lists with the federal government, an unusual request that has drawn pushback from election officials in both parties in the past.
DOJ’s Civil Rights Division filed federal lawsuits Thursday against election officials in California, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and New Hampshire claiming the states violated federal law by refusing to share voter rolls with the Trump administration.
Access to voting rolls varies state by state, but the rolls are generally released to the public and government agencies with voters’ private data — like driver’s license numbers or the last four digits of Social Security numbers — redacted.
The DOJ’s lawsuits demand the rolls with that data included. Similar requests have been rebuffed by election officials across the country, both recently and in past years, out of privacy concerns and opposition to federal encroachment in state elections. Some officials have also tied the effort to President Donald Trump’s long history of spreading election misinformation, including falsely accusing states of allowing noncitizen immigrants to vote en masse.
Last week, the DOJ filed similar lawsuits against election officials in Maine and Oregon, prompting sharp rebukes from each state’s top elections official.
“This is not normal,” Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, said in a statement last week. “Trump’s DOJ is using its immense federal power to try to intimidate us into turning over protected voter data and changing our voting processes to fit President Trump’s whims.”
Reuters and others suggest there is so much misinformatiom around, we should Fact Check using reliable sources. They produced this example in February 2025:
February 27, 20255:54 PM GMTUpdated February 27, 2025
A video with actors pretending to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arresting a man inside a California barbershop is being shared on social media as authentic.
The video, opens new tab was shared online in February with the caption, “A criminal illegal alien was getting his haircut at this California barbershop when suddenly ICE showed up out of nowhere and detained him.”
U.S. President Donald Trump took office, promising to deport millions of undocumented immigrants living in the country.
However, the video shared on social media does not show a real arrest by immigration agents at the Hk Barbers, opens new tab in Perris, California.
The vests worn by the individuals read “Border Patrol Los Santos.” “Los Santos” is a fictional city featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto.
In response to an Instagram message, he said that he was the creator and that “the video is not real,” explaining it was created as “viral” content.
When asked about the @ggrockz1 video, an ICE spokesperson said the agency “strongly condemns the impersonation of its officers or agents. This action is not only dangerous but also illegal.”
ICE arrests spiked to around 800-1,200 per day during Trump’s first week in office, then fell off as detention centers filled up and officers sent to target cities returned home, Reuters reported.
VERDICT
False. A video appearing to show a man being detained by ICE agents in a California barbershop was staged, its creator confirmed.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts.
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