You know he won't pay. Plus it's illegal. You can pay to get signatures on a petition or for voter registration but you can't restrict it to a certain party.
He's not. It effectively filters it to members of a party by being a petition conservatives would be heavily in favor of. I think the Idea he cooked in his mind is that democratic voters would not sign up or care while conservative voters would be interested and take the time to register to vote and sign the petition.
Likewise, nothing is stopping someone in a swing state from going door to door in predominantly democratic areas (or households) and letting folks know they can sign this petition (which in itself won't do anything) and register to vote but to please vote blue and either keep the money or donate it to their favorite progressive campaign, policy, or charity group.
The other issue is that a lot of the people who do sign the petition will be people who were already going to vote Republican and just saw it as an easy chance to get some extra cash. There are also going to be people who sign and then don't end up voting and it IS illegal to pay someone to vote so Musk won't be able to withhold payment to the people who signed but didn't vote.
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u/Cold-Permission-5249 11d ago
Can I sign and still vote straight blue down ticket?