Elon Musk lawyer says $1 million voter giveaway winners are not random
Elon Musk lawyer says $1 million voter giveaway winners are not random
Summary
Elon Musk’s pro-Trump group, America PAC, selects $1 million giveaway winners based on their potential as spokespeople rather than randomly.
The Philadelphia district attorney Lawrence Krasner alleges this violates state consumer protection laws. "This was all political marketing masquerading as a lottery, albeit an illegal lottery," Krasner said.
The U.S. Department of Justice has warned America PAC the giveaway could violate federal law, according to media reports, but federal prosecutors have not taken any public action.
The outcome of the lawsuit could impact the group’s ability to continue the contest, which has already awarded $16 million to registered voters in battleground states.
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I don’t think that makes things any better.
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Well, it's no longer an illegal lottery. So that's good.
It's just a rigged lottery. Slightly different thing. Also illegal, but for slightly different reasons. More unethical and fraudulent than before.
So it makes things better, and then makes things way worse.
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Grifting the rubes….grifting the rubes
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Lolz. Sounds like somebody found a way to not get arrested.
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Except that they stated multiple times, publicly, that the winners are picked randomly. So if they are not running a lottery then they have defrauded the participants.
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They only did a few, and then found a way out. If you "reveal" some other reasoning behind the curtain, that is what is considered admissible, legally in the US.
Example:
DA: "You are accused of running a lottery to get people to vote for a specific candidate, which is illegal. Is that what happened?"
Musk: "Nope, we lied about it being random, and the winners were specifically chosen, which is not a violation of the law"
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It's interesting how this is only being reported now - the day before election day. When the early-voters already cast their ballots, and when the campaign no longer has to worry about keeping up the charade.
How many people signed onto this thing only because they thought they could be the lucky winner? It's not like they can take it back now. Musk got exactly what he wanted - tons of signatures of support from registered voters in swing states, that can now be trotted out as some kind of "proof" for his preferred candidate when he loses.
On the one hand, some people do not know about, or even would believe, this news. Like die-hard MAGAts and/or people who don't pay attention to current events.
But for the people who signed the petition for the hell of it, hear about this now, and who are capable of accepting bad news? Oh, they will be pissed. I wouldn't put it past such a person to respond, "Well, fuck you, too" by not voting tomorrow, or by specifically voting for Harris.
I can't expect the number of such people to be very high, but I do think that spite is a powerful force. Those who were on the fence before now have a personal reason to distrust Trump. And right in time to express it at the voting booth!
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So he was buying votes specifically for Conservatives. That's what I'm hearing.
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Like I said elsewhere fhis is exactly what they were claiming MR. Beast was doing, yet this guy admits it and it's fine?
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Shocker
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So the end game is to award nobodies, he thinks are going to be good potential spokespeople, to get out the message?
Hi I'm some random loser that was gifted a million dollars, listen to me AstroTurf!
Stellar
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Imagine submitting your name to be in a lottery, that isn't a lottery and actually results in a background check on you to see if you're who they're looking for.
Insane.
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Why not just....hire spokespeople for a PAC at $500k/yr based on a public contest/audition about making right wing content? Same outcome, not at all illegal.
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Elon Musk is known to lie.
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My wife knows a winner. They're def random lol.
Someone gonna go to jail over this.