Musk learns that it’s illegal to bribe voters in the US.
After receiving a warning from the Justice Department, Elon Musk has stopped his $1 million giveaway to swing voters from his super PAC.
The tech CEO pledged Saturday to give away the hefty sum each day to one registered voter in a battleground state who signed America PAC’s pro–First and Second Amendment pledge. Every day since then, a winner has been announced: three Pennsylvania voters and one North Carolina voter.
Trouble is it’s a federal crime to pay people to register to vote.
Then the DOJ sent a warning letter to America PAC Wednesday, and there hasn’t been a giveaway since. Musk has also been uncharacteristically quiet on the subject.
Fuck around and find out Lonners.
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7 responses to “Bribery not ok?”
The DOJ should be able to say with some certainty whether Musk was breaking the law or not. Why the incompetency? They should have waited for him to throw more of his money away while they figured out how to make a case against him. Make more people millionaires, he can afford it. But no, they send him a warning letter.
At least it shut him up for a while. Probably a short while.
So is this going to be a scandal called Elongate?
With that name it will drag on forever.
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lol @ Jim! Thanks for that. :)
It’s obvious on its face why it’s illegal to pay someone to vote a particular way, but why is it illegal to induce someone to vote at all with money, much less merely register to vote?
I believe this is the relevant statute:
Arcadia, I don’t know if the reasoning is specifically this, but this is why I’d make it illegal – to prevent the possibility of a feeling of obligation to vote similarly to the payer.