Elon Musk promises to award $1m every day to voters as he steps up campaigning for Trump

[pellinore]

Elon Musk said his Trump-supporting political action committee – America Pac – will give $1m every day until election day to someone who signs his petition that effectively encourages Republicans in the key battleground states to register to vote.

The commitment, which started on Saturday as Musk handed a lottery-style check to the first winner of his contest at a town hall event, could mean Musk is on the hook for $17m if he remains the sole donor to his own Pac.

The America Pac petition is for any registered voter in Pennsylvania to pledge their support for the first and second amendments. The petition effectively encourages Trump voters to register to vote so they can be in the $1m draw. Attendees of Saturday’s town hall event had to sign the petition, which allows America Pac to garner contact details for more potential voters that it can work to get to the polls for Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/20/elon-musk-promises-to-award-1m-every-day-to-voters-as-he-steps-up-campaigning-for-trump

Edited October 20 by pellinore

[acidhead]

MAGA MUSK 

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

Isn’t that VERY ILLEGAL?

[DarkHunter]

1 hour ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said:

Isn’t that VERY ILLEGAL?

It's actually not illegal surprisingly.

It is illegal to pay people to register to vote and it is illegal to pay people to go vote but what is not illegal is to pay people to sign a petition who just so happen to be registered to vote in some arbitrary state or paying people to get people to sign a petition who just so happen to be registered to vote in some arbitrary state.

Legally it gets close to what is illegal but does not actually break any laws or rules.  How effective it will be or just a massive waste of money is another matter.  

Edited October 20 by DarkHunter

[psyche101]

Wow that's a bad look. 

[psyche101]

2 hours ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said:

Isn’t that VERY ILLEGAL?

 

Wow that's a bad look. 

Makes the country look totally corrupt. Lottery vote buying.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

29 minutes ago, psyche101 said:

 

Wow that's a bad look. 

Makes the country look totally corrupt. Lottery vote buying.

Not just that (which is bad enough) but Musk’s South African, so thst’s a foreign national interference….

[Buzz_Light_Year]

8 minutes ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said:

Not just that (which is bad enough) but Musk’s South African, so thst’s a foreign national interference….

He's a U.S. Citizen, the legal way.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

15 minutes ago, Buzz_Light_Year said:

He's a U.S. Citizen, the legal way.

He arrived on a boat charted by the Spanish crown, claimed to have found India and gave everyone syphalis?  

[pellinore]

 

56 minutes ago, psyche101 said:

Wow that's a bad look. 

Makes the country look totally corrupt. Lottery vote buying.

I'd vote for Trump for a chance of a million dollars. I'll message Elon and see if I can be registered to vote.

[itsnotoutthere]

 

[psyche101]

53 minutes ago, pellinore said:

 

I'd vote for Trump for a chance of a million dollars. I'll message Elon and see if I can be registered to vote.

Exactly. 

It's officially a side show. This is somehow politics. In America anyway. Astounding how this walks a legal line. Elon has made this election into a joke.

[Piney]

3 hours ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said:

He arrived on a boat charted by the Spanish crown, claimed to have found India and gave everyone syphalis?  

Syphilis was a "back at you muther****ers" from us. 😜

[+Razman]

Sounds  illegal to me. Musk seems to be heading the way of Guiliani and the other band of merry Trump folks.

[+Razman]

5 hours ago, DarkHunter said:

It's actually not illegal surprisingly.

It is illegal to pay people to register to vote and it is illegal to pay people to go vote but what is not illegal is to pay people to sign a petition who just so happen to be registered to vote in some arbitrary state or paying people to get people to sign a petition who just so happen to be registered to vote in some arbitrary state.

Legally it gets close to what is illegal but does not actually break any laws or rules.  How effective it will be or just a massive waste of money is another matter.  

Deflect and protect!

[Buzz_Light_Year]

7 minutes ago, Razman said:

Sounds  illegal to me. Musk seems to be heading the way of Guiliani and the other band of merry Trump folks.

Oh I'm sure they'll try to ruin him because he's backing the wrong candidate.

[Antigonos]

**** that South African apartheid scumbag.

[+Razman]

18 minutes ago, Buzz_Light_Year said:

Oh I'm sure they'll try to ruin him because he's backing the wrong candidate.

Well when he skirts the line influencing an election or swaying voters, these things can happen if they should find it illegal in any way. Then they will be running around claiming lawfare and witch hunt.

Edited October 20 by Razman

[Buzz_Light_Year]

1 minute ago, Razman said:

Well when he skirts the line influencing an election , these things can happen if they should find it illegal in any way. 

You mean like promising to forgive student debt and when struck down by the SCOTUS they continue with the student debt forgiveness? That is election influencing by legal if not illegal  means also.

[+Razman]

3 minutes ago, Buzz_Light_Year said:

You mean like promising to forgive student debt and when struck down by the SCOTUS they continue with the student debt forgiveness? That is election influencing by legal if not illegal  means also.

Student debt forgiveness type of thing been around since 2017. And Biden's part of it since 2022.

[+Razman]

However ---- 

Rick Hasen: Elon Musk Breaking Law With $1 Million Giveaway

Edited October 20 by Razman

[Kenemet]

I'm waiting to see if he awards more than one of those.  Trump's been accused (by many investigators) of offering prizes to people for sending him money and then not actually awarding any prizes (or more than a few of them... https://popular.info/p/trump-held-a-contest-to-join-him)

I suspect the first million or two is just to prime the pump.  Musk could easily afford a million a day, but I'm betting he doesn't do that.

[itsnotoutthere]

1 hour ago, Razman said:

Sounds  illegal to me. Musk seems to be heading the way of Guiliani and the other band of merry Trump folks.

I would have thought kicking observers out of an electoral count was illegal too, but no comeback for that.

[Buzz_Light_Year]

48 minutes ago, Razman said:

However ---- 

Rick Hasen: Elon Musk Breaking Law With $1 Million Giveaway

Petition. Maybe Mr. Hasen should actually read it and what it is for.

https://petition.theamericapac.org/

Edited October 20 by Buzz_Light_Year

[DarkHunter]

1 hour ago, Razman said:

Deflect and protect!

How is what I said deflecting or protecting.

I get you hate Trump and anyone connected to Trump or anyone that supports Trump but legally while there are laws about offering anything connected to voters there are not laws about doing the same for petition signers.