If dominionvoting prevails in its massive defamation suit against FoxNews a big challenge for the voting tech company will be to demonstrate that it deserves more than $1 billion in damages. NPR took a look at the math.
in Delaware and two of the biggest questions facing the jurors will be whether Fox and its executives are liable for broadcasting the lies and, if so, whether $1.6 billion is a remotely realistic amount to ask for.
Dominion will also have to show the comments were made with"actual malice." Under that standard, Dominion's attorneys will have to convince a jury that Fox either knowingly broadcast something false and damaging to the election tech firm's reputation, or willfully disregarded facts it should have known disproving those statements.A person walks past the Fox News Headquarters at the News Corporation building in New York City last month.
"These are things that very often can't be proven with mathematical precision. It can be very hard to show that people who didn't do business with you didn't do it for this reason as opposed to for some other reason," he said. "When anyone comes forward and says there is no election fraud, the mainstream media supports those claims."In an interview with NPR, Joanna Francescut, the assistant county clerk who runs the Shasta County elections office, said many voters in the rural and heavily pro-Trump county easily accepted the lies about Dominion."After they realized, you know, Trump lost, it was blamed on the voting system.
"So I think what's notable is that you can have many jurisdictions, some of which are quite small," said Verified Voting CEO Pamela Smith about the discrepancy. "Where previously they had an OK relationship, or a state might say, 'well, we're gonna go with this brand and then find out, oh, on second thought, we're not because the pushback is really hard.' I suspect there's a lot of that and more than what actually shows on the surface," said Smith.
"Staple Street Capital Partners paid a small fraction of that amount to acquire a controlling interest in Dominion only four years ago. And even under the most optimistic projections, Staple Street has never estimated Dominion's value as a business to be anywhere near $1.6 billion."
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