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Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes can proceed, a Pennsylvania judge says (apnews.com)

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“The $1 million recipients are not chosen by chance,” Gober said Monday. “We know exactly who will be announced as the $1 million recipient today and tomorrow.”

Chris Young, the director and treasurer of America PAC, testified that the recipients are vetted ahead of time, to “feel out their personality, (and) make sure they were someone whose values aligned” with the group.

“This was all a political marketing masquerading as a lottery,” Krasner testified Monday. “That’s what it is. A grift.”

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[–] badhops 31 points 4 weeks ago

but giving someone water in line to vote is a big NONO WTF is going on

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago

So it's not a random giveaway it's giving it to friends of the gop. Not surprised

[–] Alexstarfire 11 points 4 weeks ago

Why does it matter if it was actually a lottery or not? The problem is it was represented as one.

[–] PunnyName 8 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, they'd have to prosecute the winners, too, and I'm sure the court doesn't wanna do that.

[–] Mango 6 points 4 weeks ago

Oh, it's not political fraud because instead it's regular fraud and therefore okay.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

It can proceed because it's not a lottery, it's fucking fraud?

ACAB.