This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Amidst the avalanche of charges of election fraud and vote-manipulation that erupted, claims often made by President Trump and his advocates, after the 2020 presidential election, Dominion was one of the voting machine companies often mentioned.

Officials defending their company so vigorously, claiming their results literally were untouchable, that they sued multiple organizations for statements made concerning suspicious developments in various vote totals.

Dominion settled with Fox News for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Actually, while there undoubtedly were malfunctions during the election, it always has remained a question whether any manipulation could have changed even the few thousands of ballots that would have been needed to overturn the results of one of the swing states.

However, the FBI did interfere, by falsely claiming that the Biden family scandals detailed in Hunter Biden's laptop were disinformation, when it was true, and Mark Zuckerberg handed out $400 million plus to mostly leftist election officials who used their cash windfall to recruit voters in Democrat districts.

But now Dominion is back in the news, and it's not a good way. In fact, the leftist secretary of state from Michigan, Jocelyn Benson, has confirmed that the Dominion machines are faulty, and it's "a nationwide issue."

Benson confirmed, "This is a nationwide issue with Dominion voter access terminals in uh in the counties that use them. The voter access terminals, of course not all all the machines just the ones that are accessible, have an issue with the uh straight party voting and a programming issue that's affected the machines nationwide."

She added, "And I think all of us that used Dominion machines were um were unhappy to learn about this uh during the uh the testing period and um as early voting began. So we're working with Dominion to seek accountability uh on that front uh. And also are working with our clerks to ensure voters are aware of this uh programming issue that will require them to ensure they are uh voting every section on the ballot."

A report from Newsweek said the "warning" from Michigan was that it will make casting a ballot harder.

"Voters with disabilities and others in the battleground state can use Dominion Voter Assist Terminals (VATs) to help them mark their ballots," the report said. But, "People using the machines will have to carefully follow instructions to verify their ballot selections or they will receive an error message, the department said in a press release."

It happens if a voter selects the "straight party" option at the beginning, and then casts various voters later.

The Michigan government said, "Although the issue will not stop people from voting or making their preferred selections, and it will not change anyone's votes, it will make the process more inconvenient for some voters using the VATs."

The report explained voters using VAT machines "will have to select either the 'straight party' option if they wish to vote straight ticket or vote for each race on the partisan selection of the ballot if they wish to split their ticket."

Michigan officials said it was not possible to fix the blunder.

Dominion Voting Systems said in a statement the Michigan government "confirmed there is no issue preventing any voters from voting or making their preferred selections and casting their paper ballot."

State officials later claimed that the issue affected only some voting machines in their state.

Elon Musk, on social media, had a basic question: "What's going on @dominionvoting?"

Comments on social media included, "Paper ballots would have no issue," and "What are they doing?"

Also, "It is disastrously easy to manipulate a single line of code and produce different results. Are they trying to provoke a civil war?"

Suspiciously, there already has been evidence of vote fraud in Pennsylvania and Colorado, in additional to the suggestion of that problem in Michigan.

And Colorado officials had voting machine passwords posted online, apparently for weeks, before Republicans called out the security breach. Interestingly, former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters had been sentenced to jail for allegedly misusing one password.

"Use paper ballots and hand count them instead. There. Problem solved" said one person.

Benson's graduate work was focused on white supremacy and neo-Nazism and she once worked with the extremist Southern Poverty Law Center, which routinely labels pro-family and pro-life organizations "hate" organizations, and even applies that label to Christian groups that do not support the ideology of transgenderism.

In Michigan, she pushed for election-day registration and unrestricted absentee ballots.