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

[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.

I think it should be at least 500 to make it interesting.

Maybe he should get one of those $200 million grants from the National Democracy Endowment to further expand the registered voters which is a good thing for a democracy.

[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.

That "lottery" was just a Musk fraud, like all the rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This may end up being a good thing.

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

I certainly hope it's illegal!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I think it should be at least 500 to make it interesting.

Maybe he should get one of those $200 million grants from the National Democracy Endowment to further expand the registered voters which is a good thing for a democracy.

Great idea -let's save democracy!

[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.

That's why I asked about laws. If something is a petition to be presented, say, to a state SOS office in connection with an election, then clearly illegal. But if it is just a petition for PR purposes, maybe not. OTOH, paying the signers on the basis of being registered voters still ties it to the electoral system even if it is all PR.
Obviously Musk knows nothing about legal process or rules or whatever. If Tesla was a competitor, he'd be showing up with the flamethrowers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This may end up being a good thing.

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

This. I just learned today that POTUS cannot pardon someone for violating state law

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

There are, I’m not sure why no one is prosecuting this.

[Anonymous]

FAFO

https://bsky.app/profile/wkow27news.bsky.social/post/3llhj4e3kmd2r

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said he plans to take legal action against Elon Musk in response to a cash prize related to Wisconsin's Supreme Court election.

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Anonymous wrote:FAFO

https://bsky.app/profile/wkow27news.bsky.social/post/3llhj4e3kmd2r

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said he plans to take legal action against Elon Musk in response to a cash prize related to Wisconsin's Supreme Court election.

Musk will probably have a cash prize petition to make cash prize petitions legal.

[Anonymous]

Like all things musk. Empty promise and no money given to those poorer than him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/politics/elon-musk-paying-voters-wisconsin.html

Elon Musk Backtracks on a Legally Questionable Plan to Pay Voters
Experts had said that his pledge to hand out two $1 million checks to people who had already voted in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race seemed to run afoul of state law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

So he is buying elections????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

So he is buying elections????

He did it in the 2024 cycle without repurcussion, so why not?

[Anonymous]

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

It does. A state rep has asked the WI AG to investigate.

[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.

That’s embarrassing They cheap Why not Walmart gift cards Musk went way down in his offers !!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

So he is buying elections????

He did it in the 2024 cycle without repurcussion, so why not?

+1. He offered voters in Pennsylvania millions-but like in Wisconsin I don’t think he actually paid them. He’s cheap and only after taking himself.