Dominion Makes Voting Machines. Its Employees Have Been Forced Into Hiding.

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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President Trump's baseless electoral fraud conspiracies have frenzied his supporters, some of whom have made violent threats against Americans who work for Dominion, a voting technology company. Some of its employees have gone into hiding; they fear that their lives will never be the same.

This episode: political correspondent Scott Detrow, voting reporter Miles Parks, and Colorado Public Radio reporter Bente Birkeland.

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