Voting machine company drops $1.3 billion defamation suit against Mike Lindell

Ryan Faircloth, Star Tribune on Jun 24, 2026

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The company formerly known as Dominion Voting Systems is ending its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against MyPillow and its CEO, Mike Lindell.

The voting machine company, which was sold last year to a former GOP election official and is now called Liberty Vote, agreed to dismiss the long-running lawsuit in a federal court filing this week.

“The parties have agreed to a confidential settlement to this matter,” a Liberty Vote spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday.

The agreement reached this week stated that all parties in the lawsuit will bear their own legal fees and costs. Lindell estimated his legal fight with Dominion cost him about $20 million.

Dominion Voting Systems filed the defamation lawsuit against Lindell and MyPillow in 2021 over Lindell’s discredited claims that the company rigged the 2020 election for Joe Biden.

The company also accused Lindell, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, of waging his election fraud crusade to boost MyPillow sales and to raise his political profile.

In an interview Wednesday, Lindell said the lawsuit’s dismissal is “great news” for his Shakopee-based company.

“This has been five years of just an attack on MyPillow and myself,” said Lindell, who is running as a Republican for Minnesota governor.

Lindell is facing House Speaker Lisa Demuth and GOP-endorsed retired health executive Kendall Qualls in the August primary election. While recent polling shows him lagging well behind the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, he has outraised Qualls.

Lindell still faces a federal defamation suit from Smartmatic, another voting technology company that won a summary judgment against Lindell last fall. Monetary damages will be decided at trial.

The MyPillow founder was also found liable for defaming Eric Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Systems executive, last summer.

Coomer sued Lindell and his companies for defamation in 2022, saying he had received death threats after Lindell called him a “traitor” and a “criminal.” A jury awarded Coomer $2.3 million in damages.

Ahead of its sale to former St. Louis city elections director Scott Leindecker last fall, Dominion Voting Systems quietly settled other defamation lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, two Trump supporters who also falsely alleged the company rigged the 2020 election.

Attorneys for Liberty Vote and Lindell filed a motion in federal court Monday to dismiss all claims with prejudice, meaning they cannot pursue the same claims again.

Lindell said he does not intend to let up in his criticisms of the voting machine company.

“I’m still going after them. I don’t care if it’s sold to Liberty Vote or whatever,” he said. “All (voting) machines have to go and I’m not stopping, and they know that.”

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(Brooks Johnson of the Minnesota Star Tribune contributed to this report.)

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