Trump Backer Elon Musk Accused of 'Clearly Illegal Vote-Buying'.

Hey look, a foreigner actively engaging in voter fraud!

Next he’ll be eating dogs… right?
- His emerald mine slaves may have to eat dog to survive.
- They already have that position covered.

It's too fucking bad that the FEC is essentially powerless due to partisan politics.

Republican partisan politics.
- Oh, 100% - I should have been clearer that this erosion of enforcement is entirely driven by the GOP and quite intentional.
America badly needs electoral reform and viable third parties. This FPTP, pay-to-win system creates is such a dumpster fire.

This is in contrast to the regular legal type of vote buying of course.

You mean like the practice of handing out water, watm beverages, and sometimes snacks to people stuck in long waiting likes to vote in mostly southern and majority, minority districts. If only giving a $1 bottle of water away for free was nearly as bad as giving away $1,000,000 to potential voters.
Now, if you told your employees that half of them would be let go if I didn't make it into office...

Musk claims it is "a random $1 million payment each day to one registered voter" but is it really random or he is cherry picking 'specific' supporters?

I doubt anyone is getting money
- "Another Melon Eusk won the daily lottery? Sure seems to be a common name!"
- Well maybe someone gets $100 staging they got 1m.
And all registered voters or just from specific areas.

Garland: "I will treat this with as much importance as I do with everything surrounding Trump doing bad things...."

Money is free speech

And Speech is free money. Source: Skyrim
- In principle, the same is true for the real world.
  It it one of my favorite silly thought experiments: what could someone do if they were persuasive enough? The answer is, in principle, pretty much anything.
  Imagine someone with the Devil's charisma; they can literally persuade anyone into anything. Such a person, coming from nowhere, could be running the entire country in an afternoon.
  Walk to the White House gate. Persuade the guard to let you in to meet a staffer.
  Meet the staffer. Persuade them to let you meet with the president and vice president.
  Persuade the Vice President to resign, and persuade the President to nominate you as the new VP and set up a meeting with key house and senate leaders.
  Persuade the House and Senate to confirm your nomination.
  Persuade the President to resign.
  In the real world, if they had a high enough "charisma score," anyone could literally become president in a single afternoon. They could be an absolute nobody with zero background in leadership or high office. But if someone had some demonic ability to just talk people into anything, they could be running the country in an afternoon.
Freezy peaches you say?

Accused of, huh?

Seems like it should have been " charged with"

Is this like that email that if you forwarded it, Bill Gates was gonna make you a bazillionaire, because he invented the Internet or something?

“Clearly illegal” has become the new “our best iPhone yet.”

You can expect to hear it very regularly and also expect that it will make zero difference.

This crime is the thinnest yet!

Cool, so it’s fine if Mark Cuban does the same thing for the Democrats, right?

Right???

No. Is he though?
- Of course he’s not, it’s a hypothetical question. It would be election interference if the Democrats did it.
  The Republicans, however can ostensibly do whatever the crap they want without repercussions as the FEC looks on with their head all the way up their own sphincter.
~~Idiots~~ Right-wingers will assert that George Soros is, no evidence wanted or needed.
- Total coincidence they picked someone Jewish for their conspiracies about bankers secretly controlling the world.
I see articles like this stating he has donated $0 and doesn't intend to contribute anything. He also calls out Musk for what he is doing.
According to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks campaign financing, Cuban last donated to a candidate in 2002, when he gave $1,000 to Democratic California Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren's campaign.
Of course, since most of the internet can't detect sarcasm, you're getting down voted.
- Haha, oh well. As long as a few people see the obvious hypocrisy I’m trying to point out in our system. What does the FEC even do if not this kind of stuff????
- If "most of the internet" misunderstands you, then you need to work on your communication skills.
- Lemmy especially cant detect sarcasm, but then again im convinced that about 40 percent of Lemmy is autistic or clone enough.
This is literally happening for Democrats via the CAH ploy, and according to the posts I saw on Lemmy, it was the most "amazing cool as fuck bonkers ass wild in your face suck it Republicans scheme ever thought up by anyone ever on the face of the planet mind explode!"
So......what's the problem?
- CAH also explicitly said that what they were doing should be illegal.
- You realize they're doing it to point out the hypocrisy, right? They think it shouldn't be legal for either side to do. But while it is, they want to call attention to it.
- They basically did the same thing the Satanic Temple often does. Use the rules republicans make thinking only they will benefit. When they are used by the other side as well it has a funny way of causing a reevaluation of if it should in fact be legal after all. My understanding is that CAH made a sort of parody of Musks trick although doing it in a slightly more careful way to make sure that any legal action against them would apply more broadly. I don’t think it’s good that vote buying is a thing, but equating the satirical protest campaign with the actual thing being pushed against is unfair in my opinion. You can argue if they go about it the right way or not but legitimizing the original offense by pointing out people cheered at the counter campaign opposing musk using the same tool and humor feels disingenuous.

I’ll be more shocked if anything comes of it

Seems like a good way to raise money for a charity you like. Say, planned parenthood. Get everyone you know to sign the petition. Vote for whomever you want and but that trash bag weasels money to good use.

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I don't understand what's being implied here.

The petition states, "By signing below, I am pledging my support for the First and Second Amendments."

It says nothing about buying votes, pledging to vote for a candidate, or providing any proof that you voted at all. The only requirement is that you are registered voter in one of a handful of states.

As a registered democrat in PA, what's preventing me from signing the petition and getting some free cash? If I believe that voting for Harris is a vote to support the first and second amendments, which I fully do, what's the problem?

His purpose for providing the money is not just for you to sign a partition. It is to buy your favor and join him in voting for Trump. You are foolish if you think otherwise.
- to buy your favor and join him in voting for Trump.
  Where do you see this?
I read elsewhere that the issue was that you had to sign the petition to be eligible to win, and that you had to be a registered voter to sign the petition. So technically it was paying to get you to register. Which is not allowed.
- I’m guessing it will also play into Trump’s voter fraud claims later. Use Musk’s petition as “proof” that votes for him weren’t counted/were converted to Harris/some other nonsense claim because it’s heavily implied if you’ve signed the petition that you would be voting for trump.
- So, not "vote-buying".
Do it! The problem, which you will be helping to solve, is wealth concentration. Move that dough out of muskie's bank account = good.