Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters
Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters
The Supreme Court: “This is fine as long as it remains Republicans only…”
Accurate
This is a case where max jail time is needed. 5 years for each bribe.
Served consecutively, not concurrently
Exactly!
The best part about this is that unlike a lot of the other illegal shit his PACs are doing, Musk can't separate himself from it and say he wasn't personally involved. He personally handed out the giant check.
If Harris wins, and if her administration actually decides to crack down on this shit, Musk could end up behind bars. I'm not holding my breath, but it's a still a pleasant thought.
Elon Musk and promising people money you'll never actually pay out. Name a more iconic duo
Donald Trump and promising people money you'll never actually pay out.
If Mike Lindell is any indicator, maybe this is a good thing.
Put him behind bars for that and I start believing that the government takes this vote seriously.
I'm going to lower the bar:
If the government issues any sort of indictment in the next 3 weeks, I'll agree that they are taking it seriously. Even without bail.
Also this is just an illegal lottery
Though maybe some of the other things Musk was doing were of murky legality, this one is clearly illegal. See 52 U.S.C. 10307(c): “Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both…” (Emphasis added.)
I mean, if it’s clearly illegal then can we, you know, apply the law?
checks Musk's net worth
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No.
Can we "eat" him then? Make it a big ol dinner party everyone invited.
... shall be fined not more than $10,000 ...
Pocket change.
Make him pay it for each entrant. It’s probably still pocket change because a hundred billion dollars (or whatever it is now) is effectively infinite money.
Sometimes the depth of the hole we’ve dug ourselves is just astounding.
I mean, I guess I would take a million dollars from a deluded billionaire, but I would still vote for Harris.
So something is going to happen to him right? RIGHT?!?
The worst part is, he isn't even American. Imagine if Americans would go into a foreign country and try to influence the elections... Oh wait.
What's stopping people from applying to his "lottery" and just not voting Trump?
Apparently nothing. I live in PA and want to sign up, but I really don't want Musk to have my email or phone number or home address.
Understandable. I'd greatly consider it (if I didn't already turn in my mail-in ballot, and he offered to California) but the idea alone that I'd be giving my private info to "I am a massive fascist and enabler and funder of them" just so I can grift a grifter.
But the simple fact that even if I could give them what they demanded for payment, they would probably see a disabled, queer, poor person and go "Oh, well, you're one of them so... Face the wall."
I'd rather be a poverty-trapped queer in a red county as I am now, than sell my morals for money. That's what people with the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair do.
As if he didn't already have them
Use a throwaway email, drop it as soon as the promotion is over
Stupid rich people trying to take advantage of 'stupid' poor people.
Stupid rich people taking advantage of the flaws in American law enforcement and of the American judiciary system
Hate that I'm writing something that defends Garland a bit but arresting Musk two weeks before the election could be a huge backfire.
But if he was selling loose cigarettes on an NYC street...
Cut out the media advertisers, bribe voters directly. Progress.
Everyone talking about how illegal this is but I doubt it is. It does not say you have a vote a certain way. You just have to be a voter and sign his petition to be eligible.
The comment is almost illegible. Funny!
Legal eagle has a video spelling out which laws are broken. Note that there are specific laws against paying people to vote
Putin rubbing his fingers with glee rn. If this doesn't get prosecuted, I know what he'd do.
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“Illegal” is just a joke at this point
Has been for centuries. Rules rarely applied to the leaders of Rome or China, as soon as someone noticed the trend, it was the end of those governments until it was time to reform and try again.
If you have enough money to have sway in your community or kingdom, you have enough money to start asking for favors and benefits. "I'll give you this land, you give me something later." "If I can guarantee enough grain for the next month, I can get a guarantee from you soon."
You put someone into any power over others, someone wants that power, and some people are willing to do anything for that power.
Rich people feel like they can do anything they want and usually the law lets them do so. I hope he faces some type of punishment for this.
This immoral prick continues to push my Stoic practise to its limit.
You can't buy popularity, Elon. Ask your buddy Donald
You really want him to ask his buddy who took his popularity from a reality show and parlayed it into the Presidency , and might just do it again?
If this is illegal, does that mean Cards Against Humanity's recent voting stunt is also? Edit: thanks for the drive-by down vote, it really doesn't help the discourse. I'm mainly wondering if CAH has opened themselves up to a bunch of legal liability.