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- cross-posted to:
- enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world
Summary
Elon Musk’s America PAC is offering $100 to registered voters who sign a petition opposing “activist judges” ahead of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election on April 1st.
The legality of this tactic is debated, as it doesn’t mandate voting but requires voter registration.
The race pits conservative Brad Schimel, backed by Musk’s $14 million, against liberal Judge Susan Crawford, with liberals aiming to retain a 4-3 majority.
Musk’s support also ties to Tesla’s lawsuit against Wisconsin’s dealership ban.
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The tactic is no longer legally questionable. It’s a member of government making opaque donations to manipulate government. It’s unquestionably illegal.
It was illegal last year and the people in charge did not act. Now what’re you gonna do? Shortsighted fucking idiots.
Hackers need to empty his bank accounts.
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It gives them information with which to rig elections. Exactly what he’s doing with the entire nation’s social security information. Train a model on that, and you instantly have all the information you need to rig an election that is practically undetectable unless you actually go back and review every single ballot, which we know won’t happen.
They’ve bragged about fixing the last election. There are no consequences. We’ll just have to content ourselves with watching Tesla burn along with American democracy.
No, we just have to hold them accountable, that’s what the fourth box is for
So can I take his money and vote how I want? How would he know?
you certainly can. the vote is secret and he’d not be allowed to demand/buy a specific vote. which he is doing, but adding some layer of obfuscation
It’s what I would do. Rich people think everyone else is motivated solely by money, it’s kind of their weakness.
You can take his money vote for the liberal judge take a photo of your vote and send it to him. They can’t force you or pay you to vote any specific way. If you sign a contract that breaks the law the contract isn’t valid.
Same shit he did that helped him steal the last presidential election. These motherfuckers are buying judges in plain sight.
I’m still not convinced that he isn’t doing this to pull some sort of election fraud
He’s already committed election fraud. 2016, he openly solicited an enemy nation to interfere with our elections, which is treason.
There won’t be any peace in this country until him and EVERY SINGLE ONE of his co-conspirators are publicly executed
This, in and of itself, is literally election fraud.
Arrest this bastard and throw him in Florence ADmax for life!
Not free speech
In WI and will take the $ and vote how I want. I assume they have some other data preventing this.
I mean go for it… I assume the strategy on the whole is just a reverse of the supression strategies etc… IE I assume the vast majority of the petitions are going in areas that overwhelmingly voted for trump… and the contact information will be used to overwhelmingly flood with reminders and pushes for them to go out and vote.
IE it’s a legal absolute no to coersively hinder or push voting to people who will vote a certain way, but in this overly tracked flooded with data world. You can find the trends that allow you to target things that aren’t illegal, but have overwhelming correlation.
Hmm, so then what we need to do is create honey pot phishing schemes pretending to be musk offering money to vote, but then never send the money, and send out incorrect information regarding the date/time/place of the vote. In addition get people to submit their bank account info to you so you can ‘electronically deposit’ the money. Only instead, submit the account info to online forums used by criminals.
The end result will be that people won’t get paid, won’t show up to vote at the right time/place, and then have all sorts of fraud attempts on their accounts, and they’ll blame it on musk
The legality of this tactic is debated
How legal it is entirely depends on who’s going to enforce this
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t there a relatively recent case (as in the past couple of years) that all-but-legalized bribery in politics anyway?
Yeah, laws don’t matter anymore.
You know what’s disgusting? Just how cheap this is for him. 14 million for him is the equivalent of $35 for someone who is worth $1 million.
I’ve hurt nobody physically and I’m just trying to fix the country sob sob 😭
OK guess this is a valid tactic now, the opposing side should do it too.
Liberals just need their own richest man in the world.
We have one, JB pritzker. Fantastic governor, and all around good person.
I’m hoping he starts a militia/paramilitary force to hunt down prominent MAGAts, but he won’t because he’s not Russian bought traitor like Trump
