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MyPillow Founder Will Not Pay Winnings for Election Challenge, Court Rules
Source: New York Times
By Ali Watkins
July 24, 2025, 11:49 a.m. ET
A federal appeals court has ruled that Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder, does not have to pay out $5 million to a software developer who had entered a challenge held by Mr. Lindell inviting skeptics to disprove his claims of interference in the 2020 presidential election.
An arbitration panel had previously ordered Mr. Lindell to pay the $5 million to Robert Zeidman, a software developer who entered Mr. Lindells Prove Mike Wrong challenge, which offered a $5 million reward to anyone who could debunk what Mr. Lindell called evidence of Chinese interference in the 2020 election.
The ruling, issued by an appeals court in Minnesota on Wednesday, signals the end of a yearslong back and forth between Mr. Lindell and Mr. Zeidman, whose battle over the Challenge reward grafts directly from Mr. Lindells yearslong, baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald J. Trump.
Its a great day for our country, Mr. Lindell said in an interview.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/elections/mypillow-founder-challenge-winnings.html

Turbineguy
(39,241 posts)is a great day for the whole fucking country.
Jimvanhise
(493 posts)It is illegal to offer a prize and then not pay up. This makes no sense.
JoseBalow
(8,215 posts)
Bengus81
(9,193 posts)Bengus81
(9,193 posts)TheRickles
(2,919 posts)The NYT is behind a paywall, so I can't check for details, but I'm sure there was a loophole. Similar to The Amazing Randi never having to pay out the $1M prize for a genuine demonstrations of psychic phenomena, because he got to set all the criteria.
muriel_volestrangler
(104,407 posts)However, in a ruling published on Wednesday, a panel of federal appeals judges found that, because Mr. Lindells rules for the challenge were written broadly, the evidence Mr. Zeidman presented debunking Mr. Lindells claims was not unequivocal.
From the four corners of the Challenge contract as defined by the Official Rules, there is no way to read information related to the November 2020 election as meaning only information that is packet capture data, the ruling said.
https://archive.ph/wZYfM
I don't know if that helps; I can't be bothered to find Lindell's idiotic game "rules".
TheRickles
(2,919 posts)appmanga
(1,253 posts)Hmm, okay.
Hieronymus Phact
(645 posts)Glad someone said something!
I thought that was a cheap shot at the Amazing Randi.
TheRickles
(2,919 posts)Here is a good critique, with a section part way through on his million dollar challenge:
https://mitch-horowitz-nyc.medium.com/the-man-who-destroyed-skepticism-be35a6e5c5e4
"There is more to heaven and earth, Horatio..."
VeryProgressive
(71 posts)That's it. That's the headline. Serious researchers? LOL.
appmanga
(1,253 posts)...hits me like "serious scholars of Flat Earth". I love this excerpt:
If the discovery or claim stands up to the scientific method, it's proven. If such a thing could be demonstrated during Randi's lifetime, he would have suffered for not holding to his word and made into Randi stew.
And you can't "debunk" what's not true; you can debunk the claim and expose the lie. There's no debunking something that hasn't been proved to have happened.
TheRickles
(2,919 posts)Perhaps it's hard to believe, but an international group of several hundred psychologists, psychiatrists, physicists and other scientists are applying the scientific method to these unusual experiences. Check out the journal to see what sort of research projects are ongoing before you dismiss it all out of hand.
TheRickles
(2,919 posts)VeryProgressive
(71 posts)There was never a genuine demonstration of psychic phenomena. That's why the Amazing Randi never had to pay up. Please don't equate these completely different things.
Marthe48
(21,521 posts)You can't take his word.
Dishonorable
oasis
(52,755 posts)So, theres that.