A millionaire a day. The tycoon Elon Musk, the largest donor to Donald Trump’s campaignhas promised to give away a million dollars to a random citizen every day between now and the US elections on November 5.
The first lucky person was a certain Josh Dreher, who arrived last Saturday at a Republican rally in Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) and took, along with his Make America Great Againan unexpected check for a million dollars. The next day, luck struck a woman named Kristine Fishell, in Pittsburgh (also Pennsylvania): “Thank you for using your wealth and influence to protect freedom of expression“I thank you very much,” Fishell told Musk on the stage at the event, check in hand.
To enter this raffle, Musk, the richest man in the world, requires signing a manifesto in favor of the First Amendment – which protects freedom of expression– and the Second Amendment – in favor of right to keep and bear arms-. The other requirement – and here lies the controversy – is that whoever enters the draw must be registered to vote in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina or Wisconsin, the key states that can decide victory, well, according to the surveys, Trump and Harris are very evenly matched.
“Conditioning payments to voting registration could violate the law”
Although it has been enthusiastically welcomed by Republican voters, the governor of Pennsylvania, Democrat Josh Shapiro (former state attorney general), has called for investigating a possible electoral crimesince the law prohibits paying a person to register to vote.
“There are real questions about how the money is being spent, how the hidden money is flowing, not only in Pennsylvania, but apparently also in the pockets of citizens. “It is very worrying,” he said in an interview with NBC.
“There would be little question about the legality if all signers of the Pennsylvania petition were eligible, but Conditioning payments on voting registration could violate the law», explained Brendan Fischer, a lawyer specializing in electoral campaign finance, in the Los Angeles Times. In the event that Musk is considered to be violating electoral law, he would face prosecution. penalties of up to $10,000 fine and five years in prison.
In September, Trump said that if elected president in two weeks, he would create a government efficiency commission and choose Musk to lead it, which would greatly benefit the billionaire businessman’s business.
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