Overview
- Lindell filed an emergency petition with the Minnesota Supreme Court on Monday after withholding the $825,000 fee required to trigger a discretionary statewide hand recount.
- State election officials and the State Canvassing Board approved a contingency plan that would record separate, by-name totals only for Lisa Demuth and Mike Lindell while grouping other Republican candidates together.
- Lindell’s campaign says election-night data showed broad “anomalies” across multiple candidates and argues a full recount of every ballot is required by law, and his lawsuit asks the court to block a two-candidate recount.
- Secretary of State Steve Simon’s office says the contingency plan follows past practice and that because no payment or formal request arrived by the deadline no recount will proceed under current rules.
- The dispute now turns to expedited court review, with outcomes that could determine whether any further ballot review happens before the November general election and with Lindell’s prior litigation and a presidential endorsement shaping public attention.