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  • Hmm hmm

    Federal law makes it a crime to pay someone to register to vote.

    Musk’s scheme is to offer an incentive for signing his right wing petitions - presumably to collect names to be used for GOTV.

    While he is requiring that someone has to be registered to vote to be eligible, his legal argument would be that he isn’t paying anyone to actually register - just paying already registered voters to sign his petition. Rather than federal election law, the issue may rest on what PA state law says about private raffles and lotteries.

    It could certainly be litigated, but there is probably enough grey area for Musk to get away with it.

    But the idea that he is handing out money to collect names of people who are already very likely to vote for Trump doesn’t really suggest that Musk’s huge investment in his pro-Trump GOTV effort is likely to show much success.