Mike Lindell’s must pay $5 million in "Prove Mike Wrong" election-fraud challenge

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: Mike Lindell's must pay $5 million in "Prove Mike Wrong" election-fraud challenge | Boing Boing

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[William_Leslie]

Double-down on stupid, why not?

[Serge]

Peanuts when compared to the other lawsuits, but still a nice way to enjoy a Thursday.

[bashful]

@frauenfelder

The rules of the contest stated that disputes would be “resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration.” It also said arbitration “is subject to very limited review by courts.”

So he set the rules and now he doesn’t like to be held to them. That guy is self-deluding HARD. Good luck to Zeidman, even though he votes for numbskulls.

[RickMycroft]

Mike Lindell isn’t right. He’s not even wrong.

[anon81034786]

@frauenfelder

After examining the data, which Zeidman received as text and PDF files, he determined that one file was a flow chart describing the election process. Another was a list of internet IP addresses, and “others were enormous files of what appeared to Zeidman to be random numbers and letters,”

So “examining the data” means opening the files and looking at them?? Hell, you don’t need to be a “computer forensics expert” to recognize an IP address.

[Melizmatic]

“Prove Mike Wrong”

[someguy]

@anon81034786

you don’t need to be a “computer forensics expert” to recognize an IP address.

But only an expert gets $5000000 to do it.

[ficuswhisperer]

So a Trump supporter takes on Lindell’s challenge, and “wins” within the parameters? Parameters that include binding arbitration, which ultimately ruled in favor of the winner.

Lindell can take it to all the courts he wants, but I don’t think he’s entitled to any recourse. He entered into a contract and the other party acted within the terms of the contract. He’s gonna have to pay out.

[cvanaver]

Hey Mike, in case no one told you, you are the griftee, not the grifter.

[Shuck]

Interesting that the guy who took the challenge was a Trump supporter - but I guess that makes sense. No one else was treating this seriously enough to engage (or actually thought Lindell would pay, as his claims were so obviously full of shit).

[Olympe_de_Gouges]

“They made a terribly wrong decision! This will be going to court!”

Judges love it when the party who drafted the terms calling for binding arbitration then try to reject the outcome of the binding arbitration. It makes disposition of the case about as easy as it gets.

[generic_name]

@frauenfelder

“others were enormous files of what appeared to Zeidman to be random numbers and letters,”

I wonder if Lindell paid someone big money for this stuff, someone who swore up and down it was the real deal, and who just turned around and gave him garbage.

Because at this point “magic beans” like QAnon is what the conservative world needs to keep their alternate reality going. They’re like the political version of New Age beliefs, and Lindell’s “packet captures” are like selling someone common quartz crystals that will “protect you from all illness, you just have to water them once a day.”

[MildBill]

In breaking news: The evidence came from the cousin of the guy who wrote this letter.

Keegan-Michael Key reads a letter from the Smithsonian to a man donating 'artefacts' from his garden

[anon33932455]

Despite the ruling, Lindell said he won’t pay the promised $5 million.

Really? I’m so surprised.

[Sludge]

@frauenfelder

Lindell is also facing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems

Here’s a crazy (potential?) outcome: The electronic voting systems company ends up owning “My Pillow.”

[Brainspore]

Lindell basically challenged his biggest fans to prove a negative, set up his own rules for what would qualify as “proof” and he still managed to lose. Impressive.

[FGD135]

Both.

[phuzz]

@anon81034786

Hell, you don’t need to be a “computer forensics expert” to recognize an IP address.

Unless they’re IPv6.
I work in IT and they still look like gibberish to me