Billionaire tycoon Elon Musk promises to give up to a million dollars a day to registered voters in key states who sign a petition from ‘America PAC’, the political action committee with which he is investing tens of millions of dollars in support of Republican Donald Trump.
The petition is aimed at “supporting the Constitution of the United States, especially the right to freedom of expression and to bear arms,” Musk, businessman of Tesla, Space X and the social network X, tweeted today.
Musk already announced yesterday at a campaign event in Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) that he would randomly give one million dollars a day until November 5 to voters in key states who sign the petition; The goal, he said, is to get the signature of more than a million voters. Thus, the petition is open only to people registered to vote in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina.
The America PAC website also indicates that signers will receive $47 for each registered voter in a swing state they convince to sign the petition. At the event in Pennsylvania, Musk handed out the first million dollars to a man in the audience.
Many experts today question the legality of this initiative: “You cannot give something of value to people in exchange for them voting or registering to vote,” said Brett Kappel, a lawyer specializing in campaign finance, in an interview with the Washington Post. by Harmon Curran.
Kappel referred to a federal statute that decrees that anyone who “makes or offers to make an expense to any person either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate” may face fines or prison sentences.
For his part, the governor of Pennsylvania, Democrat Josh Shapiro, has indicated in an interview with NBC that, while Musk has every right to express his opinions, “when this type of money starts flowing into politics, it raises serious concerns.” questions that people may want to take a look at.”
The 53-year-old South African businessman is one of the staunchest supporters of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) and has completely thrown himself into supporting the MAGA movement (acronym for ‘Make America Great Again’). Musk has donated $75 million (about €69 million) to ‘America PAC’ since last July.
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