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Renowned American businessman and Trump supporter Mike Lindell has been ordered by an arbitration board in the state of Minnesota to pay $5 million to a software specialist who managed to prove his claims about manipulated voting machines in the last election were wrong . According to Lindell, the Chinese government manipulated American voting machines in 2020, falsely designating Joe Biden as the winner.
Lindell had launched a competition in the summer of 2021, with a reward of 5 million for the winner. The prize money of this Prove Mike Wrong Challenge was intended for the contestant who managed to prove him wrong. One of the participants, network expert Robert Zeidman, set to work with the evidence Lindell provided for Chinese interference, a collection of computer data that allegedly originated from manipulated voting machines.
This is how Lindell launched its ‘challenge’ in 2021:
Zeidman wrote a 15-page report that he said showed that the data provided by Lindell “is in no way related to the 2020 election,” but the jury assembled by Lindell declined to award him the prize money.
Zeidman then turned to an arbitration board, a kind of low-threshold court for business disputes. He looked at the evidence and now agrees with him: Lindell must pay the 5 million within a month.
‘I’m not going to pay’
Lindell, who is best known in the US as the founder and face of the major pillow manufacturer MyPillow, tells the AP news agency that he “has no intention of paying because there is no evidence at all that I was wrong. So it’s probably now becoming a lawsuit.”
There has never been any evidence of tampering with voting machines during the 2020 election. Lindell has been sued for libel by two manufacturers of such machines over his claims.
One of those companies, Dominion, settled earlier this week for more than $780 million with TV channel Fox News over similar allegations about voting machines. Dominion demands 1.3 billion from Lindell. According to the businessman, the various cases against him are part of a conspiracy to stop him from his ‘crusade’ against voting machines. “I will spend all my money to save the country I love.”
