Mike Lindell funding recount after Minnesota governor primary loss
Former Republican candidate Mike Lindell is funding a recount of Minnesota‘s gubernatorial primary results after he lost the election to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth last week.
TL;DR
- Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder and former Republican candidate, is funding a recount of Minnesota's gubernatorial primary results.
- Lindell lost the election to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth by over 11 points.
- He is privately funding a statewide recount and audit of every paper ballot cast in the GOP primary.
- Lindell alleges irregularities in election-night electronic reporting data and vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines.
- He claims the effort is the largest privately funded statewide paper ballot recount and audit in U.S. history.
- Lindell believes this recount is a step towards getting rid of electronic voting machines, citing that 132 countries have banned them.