MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, a longtime 2020 election denier, sued the Minnesota secretary of state and election officials, claiming they changed the scope of a potential recount in the GOP gubernatorial primary this month.
\n\nLindell, who lost Aug. 11 to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth by about 45,000 votes, said last week that he would pay $825,000 on Monday to cover the cost of a full hand recount and audit of the race, in which he finished a distant second despite an endorsement from President Donald Trump.
\n\nThe deadline for payment came and went without the money from Lindell.
\n\nHe told NBC News in a phone call Tuesday that he refused to pay after he was informed that a recount would focus on the ballots cast for him or Demuth, rather than every ballot cast in the seven-candidate Republican field.
\n\n“I paid this to have all of the votes counted, not just two people,” he said. “I need to have a real recount, and I will fight this in court and get that real recount. I don’t care if it costs triple. I didn’t hold back anything. They did a bait-and-switch on me, and it’s disgusting.”
\n\nThe secretary of state’s…
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