Musk voted by mail in November 2016, the year Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, and in the November 2018 midterm election, the records show. Musk’s primary residence was in Los Angeles at the time.
The state records show that Musk had a sparse history of voting in California. During the 18 years he was eligible to vote there, he cast ballots in only those two elections. He became eligible to vote when he became a U.S. citizen in 2002 and cast his first ballot 14 years later, at age 45. He was actively registered to vote by August 2006, the records show.
Among the elections Musk skipped were presidential races in which Barack Obama, John McCain and Mitt Romney were on the ballot, all primary elections and all local elections. California has an open primary system in which all registered voters are allowed to participate.
A fine, patriotic American who definitely belongs in Trump’s cabinet.
He means it’s insane that ordinary people can vote as easily as he can.
Same for Trump and every other republican bad faith actor
Man, voting by mail is the best. Never voting in person ever again.
Rules for Me but not for Thee
TIL that Elon musk must have become a US citizen at some point. Or are we talking about South Africa elections?
Yes, he gained US Citizenship, as the article says.
Plot twist (just for fun, I’m not trying to protect him): he actually wasn’t. The votes were fake and whoever were faking them dropped the ball by using info of someone recognizable
They also dropped the ball by risking a fine and five years in prison to cast one vote in a non-swing state.
I’m glad I’m so past the point of even trying to explain the hypocrisy to people that still give assholes like this the benefit of the doubt. Remember when the Hyperloop came out and so many people insisted it was the way of the future? 🙄
That was so stupid. I thought it was stupid at the time. Just make regular high speed rail. That’s all we need.
But, don’t you see? His idea works in a vacuum!
I wish he would work in a vacuum.
Honestly, just working in any producitve capacity at all would be an improvement for him, vacuum or not
Some places have been trying to get high speed rail for decades - when I was in Florida in the 90s we even had it on a ballot and the public wanted it overwhelmingly. Then the politicians came back and said it’s too costly. Connecting some places would have paid off the construction multiple times and helped the state economy. I can only assume that there’s people invested in building and maintaining roads that have lobbyists to keep them the “preferred” transportation option.
I doubt it’s the road builders; it’s oil companies, and to a lesser extent car manufacturers
It’s always oil companies, isn’t it? If I get a time machine, I’m going back to the early Carboniferous period and introduce the missing bacteria that would have decayed plants and minimized fossil fuel buildup.
It is always the oil companies, yes. I’ll give you ten bucks if you can find a societal problem that I can’t trace back to oil companies. Not counting homophobia, that one is a conservative religious problem
While you’re there, probably best to find the first primate, and stomp on it.
That’s the beautiful part, change the direction far back enough there may not be primates at all.
The whole idea was to crush public transportation, which Elon despises. He never intended to make a thing that worked, it was to take money away from something that would benefit the masses instead of the rich.
You mean Elmo’s been caught lying yet again? Imagine my utter lack of surprise!
Like that clown is going to stand in line anywhere with the rabble to vote.
Oh! Now I know what this is. It’s not “mail voting is bad, let’s not mail vote”. It’s “let’s use X to vote”
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I hope he continues calling it insane. This stunts Republican turnout as it did in 2020!
News flash, giant hypocrite exhibits large amounts of hypocrisy.
But he’s a genius. We should emulate him. Quick, let’s vote by mail and interview a presidential candidate.
I would love to hear Elon explain the complete process that is mail in voting.
The process is actually more secure than in person voting. Especially on a machine.
The weird people saying one thing and doing the other.
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In that case, the CIA is not using their best.
