{"id":7137,"date":"2024-10-22T06:45:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diamondtvzambia.com\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2024-10-22T06:45:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T06:45:06","slug":"musk-is-giving-some-us-voters-1m-is-it-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diamondtvzambia.com\/staging\/7839\/musk-is-giving-some-us-voters-1m-is-it-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSK IS GIVING SOME US VOTERS $1M. IS IT LEGAL?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Questions have been raised about the legality of cash incentives offered by tech billionaire Elon Musk to swing-state voters who sign his petition before the US election on 5 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The petition was created by Mr Musk\u2019s campaign group America PAC, which was set up to support Donald Trump in the presidential contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Voters in Pennsylvania are being offered cash sums for simply signing the petition. And one random swing-state signatory a day is being given a million-dollar prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But legal experts have suggested that it may break American law to offer money for an act requiring someone to be signed up as a voter. BBC News has contacted Mr Musk’s team and America PAC for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The petition created by America PAC encourages voters in six swing states – Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina – to sign a “petition in favour of free speech and the right to bear arms”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who refer another voter who signs up are promised a sum of $47 (\u00a336) each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higher sums of $100 for signing or referring are offered in Pennsylvania, the battleground state that both the Trump and Harris campaigns believe could potentially decide the race’s eventual victor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America PAC says those who sign the petition are signalling their support for the First and Second amendments of the US Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each day until polling day on 5 November, a $1m prize will be randomly awarded to any signatory in one of the seven swing states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first lottery-style jumbo cheque was handed out to a surprised attendee at a town hall event in Pennsylvania on 19 October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(BBC News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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