Mike Lindell has spent years telling America the election system is rigged and riddled with fraud. He made "election integrity" his whole identity. So here's a fact worth sitting with: Mike Lindell — the MyPillow founder now running for governor of Minnesota — isn't even registered to vote there.

Not registered in the state he wants to run

As The Independent reported, as of mid-June 2026 Lindell had no active voter registration in Minnesota. His last active registration is in Texas, where he moved in 2024 and voted. The story was first broken by the Star Tribune — which noted Lindell told the paper he didn't even know whether he was registered in the state he wants to govern.

Lindell says it's no big deal. "I'm a resident for over a year and a half, back in Minnesota. I'm qualified to run for governor. You can register the same day you vote in Minnesota," he said, adding, "I plan on registering and voting for myself."

He's technically right that Minnesota lets you register on Election Day, and that you don't have to be registered to run. But that's exactly the point.

The hypocrisy is the story

Think about who is saying this.

This is the man who has spent millions of dollars and countless hours claiming that America's voter rolls are a mess, that same-day registration invites fraud, that the whole system can't be trusted. He pushed those false claims so aggressively that he became one of the most recognizable faces of the 2020 election lie.

And this same man couldn't be bothered to make sure he was registered to vote in his own home state — while asking to be its governor. The guy who wants to tighten everyone else's voting rules is casually planning to use the same-day registration convenience he's spent years attacking.

A carpetbagger, too

There's another layer here. Lindell was born and raised in Minnesota, then packed up and moved to Texas in 2024. He voted there. Now he's back, claiming residency just long enough to run for the top job in a state he left.

So the pitch to Minnesota voters is: elect a man who moved away, isn't registered to vote here, and built his fame spreading falsehoods about the very elections he now wants to oversee.

What he'd actually do

Lindell's carpetbagging and registration mess would be almost funny if his agenda weren't so serious. His campaign platform promised to cut income, business, and sales taxes — the revenue that funds Minnesota's schools and health care. His network attacked Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act as "riddled with fraud," even though more than 151,000 Minnesotans rely on ACA marketplace plans. And Minnesota voters chose to protect abortion rights in state law — something Lindell said he would "absolutely" try to undo.

A man who won't register to vote in Minnesota is asking for the power to reshape it. Minnesotans deserve better than a self-styled "election integrity" crusader who can't manage his own.

Source

• "MyPillow founder Mike Lindell isn't registered to vote in Minnesota where he is trying to be governor," The Independent, July 20, 2026.