It’s how Elon has been able to get away with these so far. He touts them like a lottery to get the rubes to vote how he wants, but the money was never part of an illegal raffle. Definitely fraud though, but we’ll see.
He gets away with it because no one has the balls to just arrest him.*
It’s illegal to buy votes. It’s illegal to offer anything of value in exchange for voting, not voting, registering to vote, or not registering to vote. It’s illegal to offer employment in exchange for voting or not voting. It’s illegal to offer entries in a lottery for voting or not voting. It’s illegal to offer a lottery that isn’t actually random.
It doesn’t matter which way he tries to spin it, they’re all illegal.
* A little bit of the hesitation could be blamed on the authorities not wanting to get attacked for being political (I’m sure Fox News would love to show footage of Elon getting arrested at a political rally). But lets be honest, the bigger issue is that he’s the world’s richest man, his defense would have limitless resources, and there’s a good chance that the feds would interfere to get him out.
It’s how Elon has been able to get away with these so far. He touts them like a lottery to get the rubes to vote how he wants, but the money was never part of an illegal raffle. Definitely fraud though, but we’ll see.
Make the raffle fake so it’s just a bought vote?
He gets away with it because no one has the balls to just arrest him.*
It’s illegal to buy votes. It’s illegal to offer anything of value in exchange for voting, not voting, registering to vote, or not registering to vote. It’s illegal to offer employment in exchange for voting or not voting. It’s illegal to offer entries in a lottery for voting or not voting. It’s illegal to offer a lottery that isn’t actually random.
It doesn’t matter which way he tries to spin it, they’re all illegal.
* A little bit of the hesitation could be blamed on the authorities not wanting to get attacked for being political (I’m sure Fox News would love to show footage of Elon getting arrested at a political rally). But lets be honest, the bigger issue is that he’s the world’s richest man, his defense would have limitless resources, and there’s a good chance that the feds would interfere to get him out.
The GOP would shield him.
That’s still illegal. But for two reasons fraud and election tampering.