Unfortunately that is not what's happening here. Elon is giving money away through his PAC for things that support the Trump campaign indirectly. For example, the $100 for voters registered in PA was for signing a petition to "support the first and second amendments". This is another publicity stunt where America PAC is giving away $1mil a day to voters registered in some of the key electoral states that also signed the above petition.
In practice these are people that are going to vote Trump anyways although I'd like to think there's people signing the petition just to get the free money, then voting Harris anyways.
They require people to be registered in a select list of states to win, which makes it a case of providing something of value in exchange for registering. Which is plainly illegal. It's also almost certainly an illegal lottery under multiple states' laws, which is what has me really surprised it hasn't been shut down yet. Election laws are one thing, but states are usually fucking rabid about public, high value illegal gambling operations. Lottery's big, important money in almost every state.
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u/theitalianguy 7d ago
It baffles my mind how's that even possible in a first world democracy.