President Donald Trump is putting real money on the table to root out voter fraud. On Monday, Oct. 26, the president announced that anyone who reports voter fraud, whether in past elections or in the upcoming 2026 midterms, will be paid $1 million once the report leads to an arrest and conviction.
What Trump said
Trump made the announcement 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! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
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, according to USA Today and The Guardian.
The catch: it takes a conviction
The reward is not paid for a tip alone. Under Trump’s offer, the money comes only after an arrest and a conviction of the person responsible. The White House has not yet said how tips should be submitted, who will review them, or where the money will come from. NBC News reported that a White House spokesperson referred questions back to the president’s post.
The offer follows a $25 million government fraud whistleblower program the president unveiled earlier, NBC News reported.
Part of a wider election-integrity push
The announcement lands one week before Election Day on Nov. 3, as the administration presses several election-integrity fights. The Justice Department has asked California and Washington state officials to set aside ballots from people on federal lists of suspected noncitizen registrants until their eligibility is checked, and it has filed suit over Alaska’s U.S. Senate race. Noncitizens are barred from voting in federal elections.
Critics in the press argue that voter fraud is rare. NBC News pointed to a tracker kept by the conservative Heritage Foundation that has collected more than 1,600 voter fraud cases over roughly 40 years. Supporters counter that every illegal vote cancels out a legal one, and that a big reward gives ordinary Americans a reason to speak up when they see something wrong.
What happens next
Early voting is already underway across much of the country. Until the White House spells out how the reward will work, the key details remain open: where to send tips, how they will be checked, and how payments will be funded. What is clear is the president’s message heading into the final week of the campaign: report fraud, and if it leads to a conviction, you could collect $1 million.