Elon Musk offers $1M daily prize to voters who sign petition

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5 points·f1shy··5 comments

When you buy a Tesla, that helps Tesla's biggest shareholder - Elon to buy voters and buy the next potential president.

When your worth is $100B+, $1M is the same as someone giving away $1 when they're worth $100,000. Elon doesn't even register it.

Elon knows the supreme court is Republican and won't touch him.

Fun fact is that with AI, there are so many crypto scammers creating videos of Elon giving away money when he does a launch. For someone seeing it first time, it feels real. https://dailyhodl.com/2024/06/06/scammers-ask-for-crypto-on-...

Scammers must be rejoicing that Elon himself has made himself a trustworthy person to impersonate.

Seeing reports questioning the legality of this. Any lawyers wanna weigh in?

As a sweepstake (essentially a free-to-enter lottery), it is legal.

If it would be a reward to register as a voter, it would be illegal.

The sweepstake is explicitly exclusively for registered voters in certain battleground states.

I've not checked what the deadline for registration is in all the relevant states. For Pennsylvania, one of those states, today is the last day to register as a voter.

What a loophole. I'm expecting to see it happening on both sides in future elections.

If the ability to enter the sweepstake would start after the voter registration deadline, that would be airtight as far as legality goes. The loophole indeed lies in the grey zone, that strictly it isn't a reward for registration, but in reality some people will register just to be able to participate in the sweepstake. Very cunning!

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