Did Dominion Voting Systems Delete 2.7M Trump Votes?

The internet was flooded with false claims about voter fraud in the days following the 2020 U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3, 2020. Many of these rumors centered around a piece of software from Dominion Voting Systems. We’ve addressed a few of these rumors in a previous article, but the most prevalent claim, and one that was spread by U.S. President Donald Trump himself on Nov. 12, 2020, was that Dominion software had deleted 2.7 million votes that had been cast for the incumbent.

There is no truth to this claim.

On Nov. 12, 2020, a coalition of federal and state officials, including members of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), released a statement calling the 2020 election the “most secure in American history.” The statement went on to specifically address Trump’s false claim about votes being deleted, writing that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”