Elon Musk is offering voters $100 to sign his pro-Trump petition
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      • Chozo@fedia.io
        70·
        12 days ago

        Honestly, I kinda hope he can tell. I’d love for there to be a paper trail of me accepting $100 from Elon and then voting for Harris. Hell, I’d put the money toward renting a highway billboard as close to the Tesla HQ as possible showing the receipts. Fuck him.

      • GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world
        62·
        11 days ago

        He can, though. In another post about Cards Against Humanity’s project, they explained how criminally easy it was to create a PAC, request and acquire voters information. They can see your registered voter information and who you’ve voted for in the past.

        Edit: Someone corrected me that they can’t see exactly who people voted for, but, they can see party affiliation, and if you voted. Going by that data, they can assume you voted for the party you’re affiliated with.

          • GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world
            1·
            11 days ago

            Sorry, so they can see if you voted and party affiliation, and based on that, they are paying people more or less $, assuming affiliation to a party ment they voted for that party.

        • Railing5132@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 days ago

          I’d like to see that source. The voter information should be limited to their registered address and what primary or caucus they voted in - not their individual votes, which are anonymized. At most, a PAC should only be able to infer (from the voter information alone) a likelihood of which political party the voter is associated with. Now, if they take that voters info and combine it with open source intelligence, social media, advertising intelligence/marketing data, they can make much better assumptions.

          At the locality level, the voter is issued a serialized ballot. The local township, city, whatever keeps a log that “voter x received ballot Y”, but that’s where the association ends. Before being tabulated (read by the optical scanning machine and dropped into a sealed chamber), an election official removes to perforated strip containing the serial number, and the voter deposits the ballot (deserialized) into the tabulator. There is no input to the tabulator to indicate which ballot, or which voter was just processed.

          The registration receipts and ballots (without serial numbers) are kept by the locality under seal for a designated retention period.

          Source: local election official

          • GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 days ago

            For some reason when I upvote posts they dissappear for me even if I search.

            The website linked that CAH made was apologize.lol and they had a FAQ section saying how they and Musk are doing this with their PACs and how it should be illegal. Looks like they changed that site too, since I first saw it a few weeks ago, I can’t find that faq section anymore

            Cards Against Humanity are paying people more or less depending on how they voted last election, according to the records they collected.

            Edit: found solution to the dissappearing upvoted posts

          • lol_idk@lemmy.ml
            2·
            11 days ago

            I believe they said they bought more useful information from a sleazy data broker too.

    • NavySqueal@lemmy.world
      45·
      12 days ago

      Highly doubt Musk will pay, also hilarious that the reason is “to protect constitutional rights” when the person who he is endorsing has 0 integrity for that asides for freedom of his own speech…

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
    117·
    12 days ago

    Jesus titty-fucking Christ. If someone like George Soros were paying people to vote for Harris, right-wingers would be losing their collective shit and flinging it at the moon.

    The double standard is amazing.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      31·
      11 days ago

      They don’t care about truth, or consistency. They care about power. Specifically, the power of their in-group.

      Conservatism has been aptly summarized as “There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect.” That’s pretty much the whole thing. Conservatives are, in a kind of fundamental way, bad people. They value the in-group far too much.

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      61·
      11 days ago

      The double standard is amazing.

      “Yes, but I’m right.”

      They think their collective belief in the correctness of their group identity is more important than law. This explains why right-wing politics doesn’t care about consequences.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    861·
    11 days ago

    I really liked this line:

    But it’s also possible that Musk is simply doing the rich guy thing—and the classic rich tech guy thing—of walking into a new situation and assuming all of his ideas are important.

    What a chud.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    74·
    12 days ago

    You can tell capitalists are getting desperate when they start offering brides … bribes … to voters during an election

    EDIT: beautiful how a simple typo can grab people’s attention so much

  • GottaKnowYourCHKN@lemmy.world
    601·
    11 days ago

    I’m going to slap the next person who tells me racism is over and everyone is treated equal.

    How the hell is this even LEGAL? This is the state of our country? Really? Blatant bribing? Corruption? And it’s STILL a close race?

    • reksas@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      11 days ago

      the fucker is basically telling how he is going to cause horrible damage to americas economy yet those people still want to vote him. I wonder if they just want to destroy their country so awful people can remake it into something terrible. If they succeed, soviets will win in the end, as didnt they blatantly gloat at some point how they will destroy america from within? This whole thing has been fueled by russia from the beginning after all.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    571·
    11 days ago

    No water or other assistance for voters in contested areas.

    Here’s $100 to say you like trump.

    Man, this is a fucked up place.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 days ago

      No, say you like trump, sign this and that, …

      …

      …

      then maybe, I mean who knows right? Maybe get paid. Donald always pays his debts so why shouldn’t his helper do it too?

      Right?

  • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    471·
    11 days ago

    I don’t know but I think that any minimally civilized country would be a crime… just saying

    PS: I forgot that the US isn’t a civilized country and they live under a plutocracy of Capital

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    41·
    12 days ago

    Jesus fucking Christ literally billionaires buying elections… Will they riot? Of course not because they win with this. If Mark Cuban offered the same thing for Harris there would be blood in the streets and Fox news would be calling for his head after Trumps coronation…

  • gi1242@lemmy.world
    40·
    11 days ago

    can we sign up, take his money, and vote Harris?

    if a million people do this it adds up fast

    • monke🐵@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      283·
      11 days ago

      That might make it easier for him to claim election fraud. He might try to argue about how the election results don’t match with the number of people who took his money.

      • Tire@lemmy.ml
        231·
        11 days ago

        Such a dumb argument but MAGA would 100% believe it and dash their lives against the US government to make it true.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      19·
      11 days ago

      The petition is saying you support free speech, the second amendment, and the Constitution. You can certainly support all of those and vote for Harris.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
    291·
    11 days ago

    To all those wondering how this is legal: nowhere does it ask people to vote for Trump. The petition asks people to pledge their support for the Constitution, free speech, and the 2nd Amendment. Signing it does not indicate you are voting for Trump. But I could absolutely see the signatures being used for propaganda.

    • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
      12·
      10 days ago

      Wait is it really illegal for a billionaire to pay voters $100 from their own pocket for voters to sign a pledge? Even if the pledge was titled “so Trump wins”

      • SeaJ@lemm.ee
        1·
        10 days ago

        Not sure if it is explicitly illegal but there would absolutely be lawsuits with good reason. Imagine a district where 51% of the people sign a pledge to vote for a candidate but the candidate only gets 47% of the vote and losses the election. The candidate with the pledged voters would scream voter fraud and their backers would likely get violent. Considering we had that happen with almost zero voter fraud in 2020, it would not be an unlikely scenario.

          • SeaJ@lemm.ee
            1·
            10 days ago

            I’m not the one who said doing what is in the article was illegal. I’m the one saying that it is not illegal. Sorry that I have not memorized the entirety of voting law. If you want a legal opinion, go search a fucking law blog. Law is generally not black and white which is why there are legal opinions on every law but if you want the one referenced, it is 52 U.S. Code § 10307 section C:

            © False information in registering or voting; penalties

            Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both: Provided, however, That this provision shall be applicable only to general, special, or primary elections held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting or electing any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the United States Senate, Member of the United States House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, Guam, or the Virgin Islands, or Resident Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

            So very likely yes, if Musk was paying people to pledge to vote for Trump, it would be illegal and would be punished by up to five years in prison. Paying people to pledge support for free speech, the 2nd Amendment, and the Constitution would not be.

            Happy?

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 days ago

      It’s legal because they’re paying for registrations not votes, you can’t see who someone voted for just that they voted and if they registered as a party member or independent.

        • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 days ago

          You’re right I’ll withdraw that, the law states to vote, withhold vote, vote for a candidate, or vote against a candidate

          https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

          Because the musk giveaway requires registration to be eligible makes it illegal, compared to the cards against humanity PAC as they are not saying they are only paying after confirming a registration or vote. Cah wants 3 things none of those are a check on registration or voting.

  • Mearuu@kbin.melroy.org
    181·
    11 days ago

    I think this can be used as “evidence” that more people voted for trump than Harris.

    For example, elon says that he paid 1000 people for this in a certain district but the vote tallies show that only 500 votes for trump in that area. It would add to the magats incorrect belief that they were cheated. Then the magats would want to start a civil war over it.

    I hope I’m wrong.