Summary
Two Pennsylvania voters, Austin Gwiazdowski and Jeanne Fermier, received $100 checks from Elon Musk’s pro-Trump “America PAC” despite not signing the PAC’s petition, which was required to qualify for payments.
The petition aimed to gather support for the First and Second Amendments and facilitate pro-Trump outreach.
Both voters expressed confusion and refused to cash the checks.
The PAC, funded by Musk, mailed 187,000 checks as part of efforts to boost Trump’s Pennsylvania support, while Musk’s political influence continues to rise.
If this is a slip up in some sort of voter fraud scheme…
Election integrity get me so turned on.
How can Americans expect their country to work if shit like this is allowed?
18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting
Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 721; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(12), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)
What sucks: for the last 4 fucking years, we’ve had a constant stream of bullshit about “cheating and fraud” from Fuckface 45 and his cronies. It’s now normalized to call into question election integrity, so even if they actually fucked with the election, it’s highly unlikely anyone could figure out anything.
Thanks, exhaustion.
Whoops!
P.S. you mean for the last 8 fucking years
I guess. But he “won” in 2016 and didn’t bitch about election fraud or cheating. Strange, that.
he lost the popular vote. he was whining about that then, too.
You forget yourself .
He totally did, claimed Clinton couldn’t have won the popular vote.
He won and still claimed it was rigged.
pollute the waters so much you can’t find anything. pretty much how it goes.
notice how all the whining about cheating and fraud all just stopped once the cheater ‘won’.
Nothing could make me happier than the opportunity to take a hundred bucks from Musk that he himself accidentally sent to me.
Alright, plenty of things could make me happier. But it would still make me pretty happy.
Just as likely he’s now sending a pittance to other people in order to say he wasn’t targeting a group. You can send out a LOT of hundred dollar bills before you approach a billion.
187,000 counts of trying to buy votes.
penalty: a lecture about the lowball offers.
Elon bought votes
It would be inspected under Trumps admin
He knew that.
