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is elon musk offering money for votes illegal?

Mycroft said:
sigh...

So now you are going to attack me. This thread isn't about me.

Bye.
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That wasn't an attack. That was a pertinent observation. If you hadn't noticed, I lauded you in observation, even gave you a "Good for you" nod, before I observed your seeming failure to understand my post. One might be given to thinking you are a bit thin skinned.

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Mycroft said:
LOL!!

People using their money to "encourage people to choose his preferred candidate" is legal...and it is not buying votes.
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"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.”
 
Mycroft said:
LOL!!

People using their money to "encourage people to choose his preferred candidate" is legal...and it is not buying votes.
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At least Musk is doing it with his own money.
Biden / Harris was doing the same thing with student loans from the public treasury.
 
Elon's own brother has said that he and Elon were in our country illegally.
 
CaughtInThe said:
Elon's own brother has said that he and Elon were in our country illegally.
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Elons dad had sex with his step daughter and elons kid calls him a liar.
 
Naturalized US citizens can be expelled from the US through a process called "denaturalization."
Elon Musk should be denaturalized and expelled.
 

DOJ aware of complaints that Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC million-dollar lottery for registered voters is 'clearly illegal'​


Oct 22nd, 2024, 12:35 pm

The U.S. Department of Justice is apparently aware of calls to investigate Elon Musk’s pro-Donald Trump America PAC for its cash offer to swing state residents who become eligible for a daily $1 million lottery until the 2024 election if they sign a petition in support of the First and Second Amendments and are registered to vote, a strategy that some legal experts have said is “clearly” or “pretty clearly” or “likely” in violation of federal law.

Scott MacFarlane of CBS News reported Tuesday that the DOJ is aware of a letter from former federal prosecutors and former Republican-appointed government officials asking for a “review” of “payments that are being made by the Elon Musk-founded America PAC to voters in Pennsylvania and other states that experts say raise serious questions under applicable law.”

MacFarlane added that the DOJ did not say whether it would launch a probe, just that it received the letter calling for one.

The letter

The Washington Post reported Monday that the former federal prosecutors and ex-GOP-appointed officials who want a DOJ review of Musk’s effort include Donald Ayer, the former U.S. deputy attorney general under then President George H.W. Bush, Watergate era prosecutor Philip Lacovara, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, former Trump administration national security official Olivia Troye, and former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profil...ery-for-registered-voters-is-clearly-illegal/

Link to letter:



 
Back when America was "great", someone like Musk, with what he is doing now, would have found himself swimming back to South Africa at the insistence of patriots. And back then, there weren't two different pro sides to patriotism.
 
uptower said:
He is. He's using his money to encourage people to choose his preferred candidate. It may be indirectly, but that's the intention.
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You just described exactly what happens when a rich person, like say Bloomberg, pays for an ad to support his desired candidate. Is that illegal to.
 
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This is illegal because its not just money for signing a petition you have to be a registered voter to sign it so its bribery for registering to vote.
 
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