Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway for voters who sign his free-speech and gun-rights petition falls into a gray area of election law, and legal experts are...
- Elon Musk ’s $1 million giveaway for voters who sign his free-speech and gun-rights petition falls into a gray area of election law , and legal experts are divided about whether the billionaire supporter of Donald Trump could be running afoul of prohibitions on paying people to register to vote.
"The mere fact that there might be an incentive doesn’t arise to a payment for a particular activity," Smith said. While Musk’s promotion does not directly induce people to register, its timing and focus on battleground states indicate the petition component is merely a pretext, according to Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who said the sweepstakes is therefore illegal.
But Smith of Capital University said that Musk has other plausible reasons for wanting people to sign the petition, including gathering names of likely voters who support his causes. South Carolina residents lined up to cast their ballots on the state’s first day of early voting on Monday, October 21, about two weeks ahead of the November 5 general election.Footage taken by @Amber53042423 shows voters lined up in Bluffton, west of Hilton Head Island, on Monday.Monday also saw the start of early voting in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, and North Dakota.
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