Musk Offers $100 to Wisconsin Voters to Sign a Petition Opposing Activist Judges

[Anonymous]

Bribing Wisconsin voters with 100$ and gathering their data for the next election. Elon Musk is making buying up the American political system part of his regular habits. I guess he will need to do so to ensure Tesla gets bailed out again with billions by the US taxpayer when it goes belly up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/elon-musk-wisconsin-petition.html

By offering cash to voters who sign a petition opposing “activist judges,” Elon Musk’s super PAC can help identify conservative voters in a race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Elon Musk is bringing back his most controversial gambit from the 2024 presidential election: paying voters as part of a plan to identify and turn out conservative-leaning ones.

The super PAC that Mr. Musk founded to funnel his fortune into Republican causes, America PAC, said on Thursday that it was offering $100 to registered voters in Wisconsin who sign a petition “in opposition to activist judges” or refer others to sign it. Mr. Musk has been using the group to spend millions of dollars to elect a conservative candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in an April 1 election.

[Anonymous]

Are there no laws prohibiting paying for petition signatures as long as the "petition" has no actual legal power? Do we need some kind of law prohibiting any such activity when it is conditioned on whether a person has registered to vote?

[Anonymous]

Isn't this like buying someone a beer on voting day from the 1800s? Regardless, sounds like the other side should now just do the same thing until maybe they both agree that yeah, this is not a great idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this like buying someone a beer on voting day from the 1800s? Regardless, sounds like the other side should now just do the same thing until maybe they both agree that yeah, this is not a great idea.

It was ok when he wasn’t a government employee but now that he’s the number one person working at the White House it’s wrong. hopefully they will find a violation that fits. The other side couldn’t do this because they haven’t made up a job and put in someone who didn’t even grow up in America whose it is to cut benefits and jobs from Americans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this like buying someone a beer on voting day from the 1800s? Regardless, sounds like the other side should now just do the same thing until maybe they both agree that yeah, this is not a great idea.

It was ok when he wasn’t a government employee but now that he’s the number one person working at the White House it’s wrong. hopefully they will find a violation that fits. The other side couldn’t do this because they haven’t made up a job and put in someone who didn’t even grow up in America whose it is to cut benefits and jobs from Americans.

Doesn't matter. Dems need to evolve if they want to win. Play more by their rules.

[Anonymous]

I’m so sick of this man

[Anonymous]

Musk has done this before - remember his $1 million “lottery” in PA to get registered voters to sign a petition, and a similar $47 giveaway to voters in swing states for signing a petition?

This is just naked, shameless bribery.

[Anonymous]

Unbelievable.

Shameless and illegal

[Anonymous]

Does this violate state law in Wisconsin? Obviously federal enforcement is hopeless, but is there a state law that covers this conduct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Musk has done this before - remember his $1 million “lottery” in PA to get registered voters to sign a petition, and a similar $47 giveaway to voters in swing states for signing a petition?

This is just naked, shameless bribery.

How was any of that, and now this, permitted from a legal point of view.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Musk has done this before - remember his $1 million “lottery” in PA to get registered voters to sign a petition, and a similar $47 giveaway to voters in swing states for signing a petition?

This is just naked, shameless bribery.

How was any of that, and now this, permitted from a legal point of view.

It’s not legal. Someone will sue, and Musk will pull back just before a court makes him stop.

[Anonymous]

This may end up being a good thing.

If Musk is violating state law, Trump won't be able to pardon him.

[Anonymous]

There is nothing authoritarians hate more than an independent judiciary.

[Anonymous]

Every Wisconsinite should take the money and vote Democrat. Not like Elon can take it back!

[Anonymous]

Buying elections - totally legal in trump's Amerikkka.