In August 2021, the far-right conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell held a “Prove Mike Wrong” contest.
Five million dollars, Lindell said, would go to any person who could look at his trove of “cyber data and packet captures from the 2020 November election” — which he said shows that the 2020 presidential election was rigged — and prove that it is “not valid data from the November Election.”
Robert Zeidman, a computer scientist who entered the contest, did exactly that.
Lindell refused to pay him. Now he’s taking Lindell to court to get the $5 million.
“Mr. Zeidman followed everything to a T,” Zeidman’s attorney Cary Joshi told Insider Friday. “He’s a meticulous guy.”
According to an April arbitration panel decision, Zeidman successfully demonstrated that the data contained generic information about polling places, was completely unrelated to the election, or was just gibberish.
Lindell’s contest judges declined to declare him the winner. In an interview with Insider on Friday, the MyPillow CEO maintained that Zeidman was part of “a big cover-up to a much bigger picture” and shouldn’t have been allowed in the contest in the first place. The 2020 presidential election was not stolen or rigged.
“Zeidman isn’t even a cyber guy. He didn’t even have the credentials to be in the contest,” Lindell said. “This is all a sham, and we’re goAfter Lindell refused to award Zeidman the money, he took the pillow mogul to a binding arbitration, in accordance with the contest rules. A panel agreed that Zeidman won the contest fair and square with his analysis of the data, and told Lindell to pay up.nna go to court.”

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