Election Security Expert Avoids OAN Subpoena in Dominion Case

One America News Network’s owner lost its bid to compel an election cybersecurity expert to sit for a deposition in a case brought by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. and its affiliates alleging the media company spread defamatory statements about election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Herring Networks Inc. failed to show that J. Alex Halderman has direct personal knowledge about the security of voting machines in a Michigan county during the vote tabulation in 2020, and therefore the media company can’t subpoena him as a fact witness, Judge David M. Lawson of the US District Court for the Eastern ...