President Donald Trump has offered a one-million-dollar reward for tips regarding voter fraud in past contests or the upcoming midterm elections that result in a criminal conviction, eight days before voters head to the polls on November 3, 2026.
The announcement arrived via social media on Monday as the president prepared to depart the White House for a campaign rally in Mississippi. Trump spoke to reporters under the wing of Air Force One. He told press pool members that the million-dollar bonus applies directly to tips leading to an arrest and conviction. The initiative targets both the upcoming midterms and previous election cycles. The administration has not yet detailed how the rewards will be funded, managed, or reported.
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!
President Donald Trump, via Truth Social
Trump Announces Reward Following Financial Pledges and Federal Lawsuits
The election-fraud bounty follows a string of extraordinary financial promises made during the closing weeks of the midterm campaign. The administration unveiled a $25 million government fraud whistleblower program. Trump recently floated a $5,000 payment to adult American citizens conditional on Republicans retaining control of both chambers of Congress—a proposal carrying a price tag exceeding $1 trillion that would require congressional sign-off. Like the voter fraud reward, neither of those spending proposals includes a specified funding mechanism.
"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!" – President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/66HS8ZsIqS
Federal prosecutors recently announced dozens of indictments targeting noncitizen voting. The Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent Alaska from certifying its Senate election results if incumbent Dan Sullivan falls short, pointing to potential voter confusion caused by another candidate sharing the same name. California officials faced a separate federal lawsuit aimed at segregating mail ballots distributed to potential noncitizens.
Data Shows Rare Fraud Cases Contrast with Official Claims
Independent studies and official tracking databases show that voter fraud remains exceptionally rare in U.S. elections. A comprehensive election-fraud database maintained by the conservative Heritage Foundation records only 557 proven instances nationally between 2016 and 2025, a tiny fraction of the votes cast over that timeframe. Isolated offenses do occur, such as individuals casting ballots for recently deceased family members or submitting false mail ballot applications. Electoral experts and election officials emphasize that widespread ballot tampering is routinely caught by existing safeguards.
State-level bounty programs targeting election irregularities have precedent, though scale and execution have varied. In 2020, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick offered a $25,000 reward for election-fraud tips to support efforts to ensure every legal vote is counted and ineligible ballots discarded. That program eventually yielded a payout to a Pennsylvania poll worker whose tip led to the conviction of a voter who cast ballots under both his own and his son’s name.
Republicans Fight to Preserve Majorities as Election Day Approaches
With the November 3 elections less than two weeks away, Republicans are fighting to preserve their narrow majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Recent polling indicates that Democrats are pulling ahead as voters weigh economic pressures, including the high cost of living and rising fuel prices tied to the US-Israeli war on Iran. A Democratic takeover of Congress could stall the president’s legislative agenda and open his administration to extensive congressional investigations.
Critics, including Democratic attorneys general and election officials, have characterized the administration’s aggressive oversight moves and cash bounties as federal overreach designed to sow skepticism about election integrity. California Attorney General Rob Bonta criticized the crackdown on noncitizen voting, accusing federal officials of politicizing and weaponizing the law. Neither the White House nor campaign spokespeople have clarified how tipsters are expected to submit information or where the million-dollar reward money will originate.
If you do not have secure elections, you do not have a country. 'The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to crack down on voter fraud – @TheJusticeDept charged 48 foreigners with illegally voting in American elections and registering to cast ballots' pic.twitter.com/sHPArvb6eh
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Trump: "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. We're giving that person $1 million." pic.twitter.com/MkeqQ99QEY
President Trump said in a social media post that he is offering a $1 million reward for anyone who reports voter fraud — in past elections or in the upcoming midterm elections — that leads to a conviction. https://t.co/nT8mlZXuVd