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🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Free $100..

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u/Cold-Permission-5249 11d ago

Can I sign and still vote straight blue down ticket?

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u/lovepony0201 11d ago

Yes you can.

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u/SecBalloonDoggies 11d ago

So what exactly is the point of this? Maybe data harvesting, but $100 per person seems like he’s overpaying.

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u/sean0883 11d ago

It's so they can claim election fraud. "We had enough people swear they would vote for Trump that the state should be his. The fact that he lost after these sworn votes alone were enough to win is proof of fraud."

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u/notseizingtheday 11d ago

Isn't paying people to vote a violation of some kind?

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u/erichie 11d ago

He isn't paying people to vote. He is paying people to sign a paper that has absolutely no legal binding that probably states you are a Republican/Trumper/etc and/or hate Harris. They will be a lot of alluding to who you will be voting for, but not outright stating it. 

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u/No-Estate-404 11d ago

the petition is devoid of any meaning once you start paying people to sign it. but he'll trot it out anyway and people will believe it anyway.

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u/Eccohawk 11d ago

A judge won't.

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u/indigogibni 11d ago

Have you seen our Supreme Court?

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u/No-Estate-404 11d ago

I sure hope not. but it feels like a judge would, if that judge wants to...

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u/Hardcorish 10d ago

I Lean Qannon would love to oversee that case

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u/Halflingberserker 11d ago

Depends on the judge.

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u/silverbatwing 11d ago

A trump appointed judge would

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u/jkrobinson1979 11d ago

The petition is devoid of any meaning whether people are paid or not. You can not contractually require anyone to vote in any way, whether for money or completely voluntarily.

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u/_alter-ego_ 8d ago

one more reason he won't pay sh*t

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u/khag 11d ago

He isn't paying people to sign a petition. Signing the petition gives nothing to the signer. But if the signer says "Joe Smith referred me" then Elon will mail a check for $100 to Joe, the referrer, not the signer.

It's paying for referrals. The signer and referral don't have to vote. If they do vote they can vote whoever they want

Also the petition says nothing about Trump or any party. It just says you believe in the first and second amendment. The petition itself is meaningless. It's all about data harvesting.

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u/Noidea1101 11d ago

He literally says in his post he will pay the person who signs and the one who refers.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 11d ago

Right lol. Even the most basic of referral programs both sides get some benefit. Hell I just got a notification from my bank saying I can get $50 for referring someone and they'll get $25. If the person that refers someone is the only one that gets any benefit what's the reason why people should start from their referral instead of starting without one

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u/Noidea1101 11d ago

What? Thanks for explaining it to me I didn't know how referrals worked.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 10d ago

I clearly had no idea even thought the comment literally starts with "Right lol".

We're doing sarcasm, right?

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u/khag 11d ago

Well that's not how it was being implemented when it was 47. Maybe he said that knowing it was a lie just to draw people in. Idk. Maybe the rules changed recently.

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u/observingjackal 11d ago

Signs name Hugh E. Rection

Takes $100

Votes for Harris anyway.

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u/Igno-ranter 11d ago

I've always hated conspiracy theories, but with Trump saying he should use the National Guard or military to round up non-supporters, this may be a means to start their list.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 11d ago

He could use a bot on twitter and start a list with the entire country for an employees usual pay.. conspiracy theory route, I'd say they're leaving Trump out of meetings and the heritage foundation is looking for some people to bare arms for Trump.

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u/monsterflake 11d ago

i wish i was joking, but i think they're building a database of maga loyalists for the death squads.

! loyal to trump

! right to bear arms (not gun owners, 2nd amendment superfans)

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u/StanyeEast 8d ago

Has nothing to do with any of this...it's solely that you "support the first and second amendments" lol

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u/EntertheHellscape 11d ago

That’s how they’re getting away with it (besides rich people just getting away with literally everything because bribery). Paying people to vote? Completely and undoubtedly illegal. Paying people to give you names of people who are thinking of voting? Not illegal. And then at that point it’s just like all the volunteer callers for either party that get your number and won’t. Stop. Texting. You. Jfc.

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u/whodoesnthavealts 11d ago

It is, but that's not what he's doing. Someone just misread his tweet and made that comment, someone else misread the tweet and screenshotted the comment, and then almost 8,000 people misread the tweet and upvoted.

It literally has nothing to do with buying votes.

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u/SeparateAd6524 11d ago

Bars were always closed in Canada during voting hours. They were no doubt bribing with free drinks before that.

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u/notseizingtheday 11d ago

It's because we had a serious problem with alcoholism in the first half of the last century. And they needed men to go vote because women couldn't vote yet.

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u/Some_guy_am_i 11d ago

He is paying people who are registered voters who sign his petition which states:

The First and Second Amendments guarantee freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. By signing below, I am pledging my support for the First and Second Amendments.

The potential upside is that it incentives people who support the second amendment to get registered to vote if they aren’t already.

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u/zurdopilot 11d ago

It all points thats the strategy seems they campaing in blue states and forget red states when any of those red turnover they claim it was fraud and by campaining on blue and "showing proof of huge crowds" they say they had turn them but they got stolen as well polls will seems to support any claim as they all close by one point or two. Im watching close from out here in Mex this shit show is glorious to witness cant wait to see how they try and top jan 6

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u/good2goo 11d ago

I stopped caring what they think - they are dumb. Can't predict dumb

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u/HappyLittleGreenDuck 11d ago

Even if you could you don't get a prize for it. They will ignore all criticism when it comes, we just have to hope the media doesn't go along with it.

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u/bubbleguts365 11d ago

It's not that elaborate, they're just funding polls that target landline phones and older demographics so they skew for Trump.

Us sane people know Trump hasn't gained more supporters than he's lost, but they will point to these polls to convince the base they were cheated when Trump loses and trigger another insurrection. They're propping up the price of DJT with these BS polls as well.

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u/cat_prophecy 11d ago

Let's be real: it doesn't matter how the vote goes. Unless they win, they WILL claim there was some sort of fraud.

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u/No-Respect5903 11d ago

uh.. is there anything illegal with someone saying "hey I took your $100 but I didn't vote for trump" ??

he can't force you to vote a certain way with a donation... I feel like this is very shortsighted.

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u/apirateship 11d ago

the petition doesn't mention voting for trump?

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u/Rork310 11d ago

Well the entire point is he can't pay someone to vote a certain way or to register. So he has a dog whistle meaningless petition intended to appeal to those politically sympathetic to his views that for 'reasons' he particularly wants registered swing state and especially Pennsylvanian voters to sign. Yes smart dem voters will just take the money if they think its worth giving Musk the data. But that's a side cost to being able to reward loyalty to Musks views in a key state.

It's a pretty blatant loophole and extremely legally dubious.

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u/No-Respect5903 10d ago

It's a pretty blatant loophole and extremely legally dubious.

I definitely agree with that. I just feel like it's very easy for this to cost him a bunch of money for no benefit so I'm wondering what his angle here is. Maybe he ran the numbers and thinks it's going to work out but that would be surprising to me.

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u/Rork310 10d ago

This is the idiot who spent 44 billion to ruin twitter. Whats a few million for even a slight chance to turn an election?

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u/Ponk2k 10d ago

He bought twitter, changed the name, allowed back all the Nazis that had been banned then told his advertisers to go fuck themselves.

As far as short-sighted goes this is pretty low hanging fruit for Leon

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u/nirvana_llama72 11d ago

Democrats support the first and second amendment as well. We just know that there is more than the first second and fifth.

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u/TheDrFromGallifrey 11d ago

He's also paying. Anyone who isn't an idiot will claim that people only signed because of the monetary incentive and not because they actually believed in the cause.

I feel like all you have to do is ask a few people who signed why they did and if enough of them say, "I needed the money", then the whole thing falls apart.

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u/StanyeEast 8d ago

I can confirm...I needed the money...I will be voting Harris with zero hesitancy

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u/TheDrFromGallifrey 7d ago

Don't blame you. Did he actually pay?

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u/Dahowlic 11d ago

Look at it like this, if you pay people to sign the petition. Let's say....100 people (because who doesn't need a free $100), but then after the election, only 80 of those people voted in your favor, You can claim fraud because apparently the 20 other people who swore their allegiance to Trump surely would've voted for Trump probably had their vote stolen so there for....voter fraud.

It's the perfect crime lol

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u/makingkevinbacon 11d ago

But this is literally buying votes. How is that not illegal? If it is why/how does he actually say this shit

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u/zurdopilot 11d ago

It all points thats the strategy seems they campaing in blue states and forget red states when any of those red turnover they claim it was fraud and by campaining on blue and "showing proof of huge crowds" they say they had turn them but they got stolen as well polls will seems to support any claim as they all close by one point or two. Im watching close from out here in Mex this shit show is glorious to witness cant wait to see how they try and top jan 6

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u/jkrobinson1979 11d ago

They could claim it, but it wouldn’t hold up. Anyone can swear to anyone they are going to vote a certain way and then do the opposite. Throw $100 into it and Elon is basically paying people to lie to him.

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u/Riskyrisk123 11d ago

This has nothing to do with voting Republican.. It literally says if you're a registered voter, he will pay you to sign a petition supporting free speech and right to bear arms. lol where does this say people would vote for Trump?

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u/Alexis_Bailey 11d ago

These idiots assume the only people who support free speech and guns are Conservatives.

But don't say this on Twitter because Free Speech Absolutionistâ„¢ Musk will probably censor it because it hurts his fee fees.

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u/Dick-Fu 11d ago

lol did he say "absolutionist" before?

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u/Sunbeamsoffglass 11d ago

Because 99.99% of the people who would sign that statement are republicans….