Smells like it to me..

Don't vote for dotards who suck so bad they need to have a ketted-out billionaire bribe people.

Elon Musk's daily $1 million giveaway to registered voters could be illegal, experts say



While stumping for former President Donald Trump on Saturday, tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he will give away $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states, immediately drawing scrutiny from election law experts who said the sweepstakes could violate laws against paying people to register.

"We want to try to get over a million, maybe 2 million voters in the battleground states to sign the petition in support of the First and Second Amendment. ... We are going to be awarding $1 million randomly to people who have signed the petition, every day, from now until the election," Musk said at a campaign event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The X owner and Tesla CEO was referring to a petition launched by his political action committee affirming support for the rights to free speech and to bear arms. The website, launched shortly before some registration deadlines, says, "this program is exclusively open to registered voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina."


In an interview Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Musk's giveaway was "deeply concerning" and is "something that law enforcement could take a look at." Shapiro, a Democrat, was previously the state attorney general.

Federal law makes it a crime for anyone who "pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting." It's punishable by up to five years in prison.

"When you start limiting prizes or giveaways to only registered voters or only people who have voted, that's where bribery concerns arise," said Derek Muller, an election law expert who teaches at Notre Dame Law School. "By limiting a giveaway only to registered voters, it looks like you're giving cash for voter registration."

Offering money to people who were already registered before the cash prize was announced could violate federal law, Muller said, but the offer also "can include people who are not yet registered," and the potential "inducements for new registrations is far more problematic."

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Edited: 10/21/2024 at 09:42 PM by fishkller

No!

It is not bribery at all!

This is how 'trickle down' is supposed to work!

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We have clearly seen laws don't matter. The Swamp is overflowing.

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I was right.

Criminal charges? We'll see i guess.

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Just more criminal activity from the Party of Criminals.

Rigged system gives them a pass.

Don't vote for maga dotard criminals.

Back the blue- vote Law & Order.

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Sway that funky music white boy