No, Dominion software will not be used to report votes

• Social media posts allege voter fraud for the 2022 presidential election, through Dominion software.

  Used in the United States, it would be responsible for compiling and reporting all the results in France.

• The Ministry of the Interior specifies that it does not call on any external service provider in the context of this election, and that the computer system used is produced by its own services.

• In addition, the French electoral system allows any voter to check the results by polling station by attending the counting and by consulting the minutes of the results at the town hall.

For the past few days, social networks have seen a number of publications calling for monitoring the counts and the results of the first round of the presidential election this Sunday.

In question, possible fraud via the Dominion software, which would be responsible for compiling and forwarding the results to the Ministry of the Interior.

Initially carried by a few accounts on Facebook, this information has been repeated since the beginning of the week on Twitter.

Many of these publications even highlight an intervention by Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who would affirm that "the election in France is totally rigged, it is much worse than in the United States" .

This quote, widely quoted, is not sourced, and would be dated March 15, 2022. Others, older, quote the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, or the Brazilian President Jaïr Bolsonaro, who would have all expressed their concern ahead of the upcoming French election and the use of Dominion.

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Software that has already created controversy… in the United States

The software in question, created by Dominion Voting Systems Corporation, is an electronic voting system.

He was implicated in the 2020 US election, which saw Democratic candidate Joe Biden win, and with it the fraud charges from the loser, incumbent President Donald Trump.

Accusations that Dominion erased votes for the Republican.

If the hypotheses of fraud, or piracy, were finally rejected, the controversy left a suspicious image on Dominion.

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Contacted by AFP on March 22, Gérald Darmanin's entourage denied the use of equipment from the Dominion company during the 2022 presidential and legislative elections in France: "The Ministry of the Interior does not and does not never used the services of the Dominion company in the context of the organization of the elections.

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, the minister's office confirmed this statement, referring all citizens to the electoral law, which "requires that this counting take place in public, in the presence of the members of the office, the delegates of the candidates and the voters who wish to attend.

Once the minutes have been drawn up in duplicate by the secretary in the voting room, and signed by the members of the office and the delegates of the candidates if there are any, the result is announced in public by the president of the office and displayed by him in the voting room.

A copy of the report is then sent to the representative of the State, who forwards it to the Ministry of the Interior, via the prefecture.

It is at this level that IT comes into play. According to the ministry, the systems used are developed by the departments of the Ministry of the Interior.

He recalls that he does not use “any external service provider in the context of vote centralization operations”.

To ensure the veracity of the results, the other copy of the minutes is deposited in the town hall and must be communicated to any elector requesting, during the deadlines provided for a possible appeal against the election, as specified on the website. of the government.

Dominion Voting does not mention a contract made in France

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, Dominion Voting Systems Corporation had not replied to us at the time of publishing this article.

But its site, however quick to communicate on the contracts signed by the firm, does not mention any intervention in France.

Moreover, the statements cited above, which come from the Kremlin or other foreign political leaders, are impossible to source, despite extensive research.

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