Mike Lindell stops payment for primary election recount, calls terms 'unlawful' - Star Tribune
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Mike Lindell halted funding for a recount he requested, claiming the terms were unlawful — yet the recount was meant to prove his own algorithm-fraud theory.
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Theory Briefing
- Lindell stopped payment for a primary election recount he had sought to validate his claim that an algorithm manipulated vote totals.
- He called the recount's terms 'unlawful,' pulling funding before the process could either support or undermine his theory.
- His core claim — 'there was an algorithm that night' — remains unproven, and the abandoned recount leaves it untested.
- Withdrawing from the very process that could vindicate him raises questions about confidence in the outcome he says he wants.