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Dominion Audit Finds No Hacks; Fox Pays $787.5 M Settlement

5/23/2026

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Kurt Olsen’s team dismantled seized Dominion voting machines and found only standard chips, showing no foreign hacking evidence.
Democratic senators called for Olsen’s removal from his election-security post.
Commerce Department officials began reviewing a ban on Dominion machines in September 2023 that would have forced half of U.S. states to count paper ballots by hand.
Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle false election-rigging claims.

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Story summary

Kurt Olsen’s team dismantled seized Dominion voting machines and found only standard chips, showing no foreign hacking evidence.
Democratic senators called for Olsen’s removal from his election-security post.
Commerce Department officials began reviewing a ban on Dominion machines in September 2023 that would have forced half of U.S. states to count paper ballots by hand.
Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle false election-rigging claims.