His claims were found to be bogus (though he got out of paying on a technicality):
While Judge John Tunheim didn't agree wholeheartedly with an arbitration panel's findings on data the pillow magnate used to back his election disputes, he didn't find reversible fault with its award.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — A federal judge has ruled that pillow magnate and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell must pay out a $5 million prize he offered to anyone who could disprove his dispute of the 2020 election results.
U.S. District Judge John Tunheim of the District of Minnesota
confirmed an arbitration award in a brief order Wednesday, ordering Lindell to pay out the $5 million plus ten months’ worth of post-judgment interest to contest winner Robert Zeidman within a month.
Zeidman, an electrical engineer, software developer and inventor, entered the “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge at Lindell’s 2021 Cyber Symposium, where Lindell offered a $5 million prize to anyone who could prove that data he claimed supported his election result denials was not genuinely from the 2020 election.
After Lindell failed to pay out in response to Zeidman’s 15-page report on the data — which found that the data did not contain any information related to the election — the engineer filed for arbitration under the contest’s rules. An arbitration panel conducted an evidentiary hearing early in 2023, and
awarded Zeidman the requested $5 million in April 2023. Lindell fought Zeidman’s motion to confirm the award, leading to another nine months of litigation in Minnesota’s federal court.