Trump Offers $1 Million for Voter Fraud Tips That Lead to Convictions

President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States will pay $1 million to anyone whose report of voter fraud leads to an arrest and a conviction. Reuters reported the announcement on Monday, eight days before the November 3 midterm elections, and noted that polls show the elections could prove difficult for Trump's Republican Party.

Trump made the offer in a post on Truth Social. "Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud," he wrote.

He repeated the offer to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a campaign rally in Corinth, Mississippi. "I'm also going to be issuing a $1 million bonus or reward, or whatever you want to call it, for anybody that reports voter fraud, leading to the arrest and conviction of somebody," Trump said. "We give you, that person, a million dollars," he added, according to the New York Post account of the exchange at Joint Base Andrews.

What the offer does not say

The announcement did not name an agency to run the reward, a source for the money, or a way to submit a report. USA Today reported that Trump did not say whether government funds or his own resources would pay for the rewards. Newsmax noted that the statement also does not explain what evidence would qualify, how competing claims would be judged, or whether the offer covers state prosecutions, federal cases, or both.

A second election claim in the same remarks

In the same exchange with reporters, Trump called the result of Brazil's presidential runoff another rigged election. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a fourth term on Sunday with 51.79 percent of the vote, defeating Flavio Bolsonaro by more than 4 million votes, USA Today reported. Trump said the result "looked so corrupt, so terrible" and called a two hour extension of voting "very strange." Bolsonaro has refused to concede and has said he will seek an annulment of the election.

A week of reward offers

Monday's offer follows a separate fraud program announced last week. The Justice Department said on October 20 that its Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program pays $10,000 to $30,000 for information that leads to criminal charges in qualifying cases, with the Treasury Department committing $25 million to the program. At that announcement, Trump added that tipsters who uncover fraud in government programs will receive a commission of 1 percent of the money recovered, with no limit on how much a person can collect.

USA Today reported that Trump has sent $500 rebate checks to about 1 million Americans who he said were overcharged for health insurance, and $90 to 21 million seniors using funds diverted from a Medicare improvement fund, and that he has promised $5,000 dividend checks to all American adults if Republicans win control of Congress. CNN reported that a Reuters/Ipsos poll last month found registered voters saying by 66 percent to 18 percent that the $5,000 promise was inappropriate.

On to Mississippi

Trump was travelling to Corinth, in northeast Mississippi, to speak at Crossroads Arena at 6 p.m. Central for Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces Democrat Scott Colom in the November 3 election. The Clarion Ledger reported that forecasts still project a Hyde-Smith win by a narrower margin than before, and that the Cook Political Report moved the race last week from Solid Republican to Likely Republican.