Trump Offers $1 Million For Voter-Fraud Tips A Week Before The Midterms

President Donald Trump said Monday that the government will pay $1 million to anyone who reports voter fraud that leads to an arrest and conviction, just over a week before the Nov. 3 midterm elections. “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 on Truth Social.

He repeated the offer to reporters, according to the Epoch Times. “I’m also going to be issuing a million dollar 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’re giving that person a million dollars.”

Trump did not say how the money would be paid, which agency would handle it, or which past elections would count. According to Reuters, critics, including some Democratic and Republican election officials, see the administration’s push on election oversight as federal overreach, and that some officials are preparing for possible federal interference in the vote.

It is the second tip-for-cash program Trump has announced in a week. On Oct. 20 he unveiled a federal reward scheme for fraud against taxpayers, as we reported, telling reporters informants would get 1% of the fraud they report while the program’s own website promised up to $30,000. He said he would be “the arbitrator of all of these decisions.” The Epoch Times notes that the Justice Department’s fraud task force already pays $10,000 to $30,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a fraud suspect.

The announcement landed the same day the Justice Department said it had charged 48 foreign nationals with illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration and related election crimes in California, Pennsylvania, Florida, New York and Nevada. California accounts for 28 of the cases, and the alleged votes run from the 2020 election to a June 2026 primary. The department’s release describes the defendants as accused, not convicted, and presumed innocent.

A reward for voter-fraud tips has been tried before. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick offered up to $1 million from his campaign account in November 2020, with at least $25,000 per tip that led to a conviction. Jim Clancy, a former chairman of the Texas Ethics Commission, said then that the payouts could be argued to be “an in-kind contribution to the Donald Trump campaign.”

Under Trump’s terms nobody is paid until a tip ends in an arrest and a conviction, and the post covers fraud in “the past Elections” as well as the coming one.