The Sunday Read: ‘He Was the “Perfect Villain” for Voting Conspiracists’

<p>Over the past decade, Eric Coomer has helped make Dominion Voting Systems one of the largest providers of voting machines and software in the United States.</p><p>He was accustomed to working long days during the postelection certification process, but November 2020 was different.</p><p>President Trump was demanding recounts. His allies had spent months stoking fears of election fraud. And then, on Nov. 8, Sidney Powell, a lawyer representing the Trump campaign, appeared on Fox News and claimed, without evidence, that Dominion had an algorithm that switched votes from Trump to Joe Biden.</p><p>This is the story of how the 2020 election upended Mr. Coomer’s life.</p><p><i><strong>This story</strong> <strong>was written by Susan Dominus and recorded by Audm</strong>. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, </i><a href="https://www.audm.com/?utm_source=nytmag&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=trials_eric_coomer_dominus" target="_blank"><i>download Audm for iPhone or Android</i></a><i>.</i></p>