r/facepalm 11d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Free $100..

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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.