[Above, watch Mike Lindell through the Hal Sparks lens, from Wednesday. It's the best way.]

Gee Mike Lindell, maybe you shouldn't have issued a 'Prove Mike Wrong' election-fraud challenge.

Because someone proved Mike Lindell wrong, and Mike has to pay up, according to arbitrators. Bloomberg via The Detroit News reports:

During frequent media appearances, [Lindell] had advertised his three-day symposium as the event where he would finally provide data proving his claims. And he issued his high-stakes challenge.

"There's a $5 million prize for anybody that can prove the election data that I have from the 2020 election was false, is not from the 2020 election," Lindell said on the conservative show "The Glazov Gang," which streams online.

Lindell's claims that he had packet captures intrigued Zeidman, who has served as an expert for tech firms in intellectual property lawsuits. Describing himself as a "reasonable" and "moderate conservative" who voted twice for Donald Trump, Zeidman told the arbitration panel he was skeptical of Lindell's claims. But he said he also did not believe Lindell would promote unvetted data, so he thought the conference could offer a "great chance to see history in the making, perhaps an election overturned."

At the event, [Robert] Zeidman received contest rules. There was no mention of disproving Chinese interference, according to contest forms submitted in the arbitration case. Rather, winners would have to prove that the data provided "does NOT reflect information related to the November 2020 election."

Throughout this process, Lindell has behaved in his usual unhinged manner.

Lindell claimed he didn't owe the $5 million because he had not revealed the REAL data, citing that the Deep State might have put a poison pill in the REAL election data, blah blah blah.

Lindell's crackpottery caught up with him this time and Zeidman, a Republican and two-time Trump voter who actually believes the 2020 election was a free and fair election, gets five million bucks.