• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    You can tell capitalists are getting desperate when they start offering brides … bribes … to voters during an election

    EDIT: beautiful how a simple typo can grab people’s attention so much

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    Jesus titty-fucking Christ. If someone like George Soros were paying people to vote for Harris, right-wingers would be losing their collective shit and flinging it at the moon.

    The double standard is amazing.

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      The double standard is amazing.

      “Yes, but I’m right.”

      They think their collective belief in the correctness of their group identity is more important than law. This explains why right-wing politics doesn’t care about consequences.

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      They don’t care about truth, or consistency. They care about power. Specifically, the power of their in-group.

      Conservatism has been aptly summarized as “There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect.” That’s pretty much the whole thing. Conservatives are, in a kind of fundamental way, bad people. They value the in-group far too much.

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      Highly doubt Musk will pay, also hilarious that the reason is “to protect constitutional rights” when the person who he is endorsing has 0 integrity for that asides for freedom of his own speech…

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        Honestly, I kinda hope he can tell. I’d love for there to be a paper trail of me accepting $100 from Elon and then voting for Harris. Hell, I’d put the money toward renting a highway billboard as close to the Tesla HQ as possible showing the receipts. Fuck him.

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        He can, though. In another post about Cards Against Humanity’s project, they explained how criminally easy it was to create a PAC, request and acquire voters information. They can see your registered voter information and who you’ve voted for in the past.

        Edit: Someone corrected me that they can’t see exactly who people voted for, but, they can see party affiliation, and if you voted. Going by that data, they can assume you voted for the party you’re affiliated with.

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          I’d like to see that source. The voter information should be limited to their registered address and what primary or caucus they voted in - not their individual votes, which are anonymized. At most, a PAC should only be able to infer (from the voter information alone) a likelihood of which political party the voter is associated with. Now, if they take that voters info and combine it with open source intelligence, social media, advertising intelligence/marketing data, they can make much better assumptions.

          At the locality level, the voter is issued a serialized ballot. The local township, city, whatever keeps a log that “voter x received ballot Y”, but that’s where the association ends. Before being tabulated (read by the optical scanning machine and dropped into a sealed chamber), an election official removes to perforated strip containing the serial number, and the voter deposits the ballot (deserialized) into the tabulator. There is no input to the tabulator to indicate which ballot, or which voter was just processed.

          The registration receipts and ballots (without serial numbers) are kept by the locality under seal for a designated retention period.

          Source: local election official

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            For some reason when I upvote posts they dissappear for me even if I search.

            The website linked that CAH made was apologize.lol and they had a FAQ section saying how they and Musk are doing this with their PACs and how it should be illegal. Looks like they changed that site too, since I first saw it a few weeks ago, I can’t find that faq section anymore

            Cards Against Humanity are paying people more or less depending on how they voted last election, according to the records they collected.

            Edit: found solution to the dissappearing upvoted posts

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            Sorry, so they can see if you voted and party affiliation, and based on that, they are paying people more or less $, assuming affiliation to a party ment they voted for that party.

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                CAH are paying more to people who voted republican last election, only if they post on social media why they are voting democrat this time, and their plan to go out and vote.

                I can’t find the page from a few weeks ago anymore though, apologize.lol links to a different page of Cards Against Humanity’s campaign where I can’t see the FAQ anymore.

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      It’s legal because they’re paying for registrations not votes, you can’t see who someone voted for just that they voted and if they registered as a party member or independent.

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          You’re right I’ll withdraw that, the law states to vote, withhold vote, vote for a candidate, or vote against a candidate

          https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

          Because the musk giveaway requires registration to be eligible makes it illegal, compared to the cards against humanity PAC as they are not saying they are only paying after confirming a registration or vote. Cah wants 3 things none of those are a check on registration or voting.

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    the guy who famously never pays his vendors or his rent until he gets evicted is promising to send money?
    wow sign me up…

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      If it were for actual votes, yes. But this is money for signing that a petition a PAC Musk runs has created.

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    can we sign up, take his money, and vote Harris?

    if a million people do this it adds up fast

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      That might make it easier for him to claim election fraud. He might try to argue about how the election results don’t match with the number of people who took his money.

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        Such a dumb argument but MAGA would 100% believe it and dash their lives against the US government to make it true.

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      The petition is saying you support free speech, the second amendment, and the Constitution. You can certainly support all of those and vote for Harris.

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    Buying votes straight up. The only way this could get any worse is if it was funded by Trump or if Trump did it himself.

    It would be hilarious if Trump asked Musk for $100 for voting Trump though

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    This is showing how desperate they are which maybe they know something about Trump’s chances to avoid prison.

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    I’m going to slap the next person who tells me racism is over and everyone is treated equal.

    How the hell is this even LEGAL? This is the state of our country? Really? Blatant bribing? Corruption? And it’s STILL a close race?

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      the fucker is basically telling how he is going to cause horrible damage to americas economy yet those people still want to vote him. I wonder if they just want to destroy their country so awful people can remake it into something terrible. If they succeed, soviets will win in the end, as didnt they blatantly gloat at some point how they will destroy america from within? This whole thing has been fueled by russia from the beginning after all.

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    No water or other assistance for voters in contested areas.

    Here’s $100 to say you like trump.

    Man, this is a fucked up place.

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      No, say you like trump, sign this and that, …

      then maybe, I mean who knows right? Maybe get paid. Donald always pays his debts so why shouldn’t his helper do it too?

      Right?