Scott Leiendecker, a former election official who purchased Dominion Voting Systems in October 2025, listens during a US Senate hearing on election security in Washington, DC, in 2018. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images Washington —

The new owner of Dominion Voting Systems affirmed in his first interview since buying the company that President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and pledged that his company’s machines, used by nearly a third of US voters, won’t be misused to help either political party.

Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican election official from St. Louis who already runs a separate election tech company, bought Dominion last month and rebranded it Liberty Vote.

The surprise move, and a public announcement that seemingly embraced parts of Trump’s push to

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