Mike Lindell Wants Supreme Court to Fast-Track His Case

Mike Lindell wants the U.S. Supreme Court to fast-track his case challenging the use of electronic tabulation systems in elections to ensure his concerns are heard before the November presidential vote.

Lindell, CEO of MyPillow and an ally to former President Donald Trump who has backed Trump's claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 presidential election, on Friday announced he filed a case with the Supreme Court, challenging the use of voting machines. He believes the U.S. should shift to using only paper ballots, arguing that doing so would make elections more secure.

However, despite allegations from some conservatives, there has been no evidence of widespread election fraud in Trump's 2020 loss to President Joe Biden or any other recent elections.

Lindell said during a press conference held in an X Space that his attorneys urged the Supreme Court to hear the challenge before the November election, when Trump is again set to face Biden.

The nation's high court has only a few months to hear the case, should it decide to do so, as its current term is expected to end in either late June or early July.

"I don't know if I can say this or not but I'm going to. I believe they're putting it on there in an emergency expedite," he said. "This is one of those things with the Supreme Court. To be able to get there, it has to be something that affects the whole country. This affects everything."

He said he hopes his case will be heard "really fast" and that he expects his complaint will be made available for the public to read in the coming days.

Newsweek reached out to Lindell for comment via email on Friday.

He touted new "explosive" evidence in his filing he believes will "shock the world," whether the court eventually accepts his case or not. He did not provide specifics.

"When they docket it, I think you're all going to be in agreement with me. The Supreme Court, they're the last line of defense, so to speak, and they view our elections as critical infrastructure," he said, adding that he believes there will be a 9-0 vote in his favor.

His case stems from an April 2022 lawsuit filed by Kari Lake, an Arizona Republican Senate candidate who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2022, and Arizona Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem, alleging that the systems used to count votes in the state were untrustworthy.

That case, however, was dismissed on standing. Lindell said Friday that because the case was initially dismissed on standing, he was able to introduce new evidence uncovered by lawyers about three months prior to the Supreme Court.

Lake lost her election to then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs by less than 18,000 votes, while Finchem lost by more than 100,000 votes to Democrat Adrian Fontes. No evidence has been presented to back up claims that Arizona's elections in 2022 were undermined by voter fraud.