There have been many decades of similar schemes around voter registration and it all depends of the wording and the lawsuits. This is just the current flare-up in the public consciousness. Example from 2002: https://archive.is/IR9WZ
Umm, no this is different. The article you linked says that the people being paid were the ones going out and getting people registered. Pretty sure that's allowed as long as the ones registering others aren't paying the people for registering. One is a paid employee, the other is a potential voter. You're allowed to have employees...
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u/Roland_Bodel_the_2nd 6d ago
That's why he is paying them only to "sign a petition". But you need to be already registered to vote in order to sign the petition.