{"id":116472,"date":"2024-10-20T22:31:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116472"},"modified":"2024-10-20T22:31:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:31:47","slug":"law-enforcement-should-take-a-look-at-elon-musk-voter-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116472","title":{"rendered":"Law enforcement should &#8216;take a look at&#8217; Elon Musk voter payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday that tech mogul Elon Musk\u2019s plan to give money to registered voters in Pennsylvania is \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s something that law enforcement could take a look at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shapiro\u2019s comments on NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d\u00a0come one day after Musk<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/elon-musk-raises-payment-offer-100-voters-sign-petition-rcna176075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/elon-musk-raises-payment-offer-100-voters-sign-petition-rcna176075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/elon-musk-raises-payment-offer-100-voters-sign-petition-rcna176075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Pennsylvania<\/a> that every day until Election Day, he would give $1 million to a random registered voter who signs a petition circulated by his super PAC \u201cin favor of free speech and the right to bear arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The super PAC has made signing the petition a prerequisite for attending rallies headlined by Musk, and on Saturday he surprised one rally attendee by giving away the first $1 million check onstage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shapiro, a Democrat, made clear on Sunday that his political differences with Musk, who has endorsed former President Donald Trump and pledged to use millions of dollars to turn out Pennsylvania voters for the former president via his super PAC, are not driving his skepticism of these cash prizes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cMusk obviously has a right to be able to express his views. He\u2019s made it very, very clear that he supports Donald Trump. I don\u2019t. Obviously we have a difference of opinion,\u201d Shapiro said, adding: \u201cI don\u2019t deny him that, right, but when you start flowing this kind of money into politics, I think it raises serious questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"styles_inlineImage__yAWZ0 styles_medium__OMa6x\"><picture class=\"styles_image__1qciH\" data-testid=\"picture\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/rockcms\/2024-10\/241008-elon-musk-2023-ac-724p-592f31.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-10\/241008-elon-musk-2023-ac-724p-592f31.jpg 1x\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/rockcms\/2024-10\/241008-elon-musk-2023-ac-724p-592f31.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-10\/241008-elon-musk-2023-ac-724p-592f31.jpg 1x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-10\/241008-elon-musk-2023-ac-724p-592f31.jpg\" alt=\"elon musk\" height=\"1667\" width=\"2500\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption styles_caption__Pe5JC\" data-testid=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption__container\" data-testid=\"caption__container\">Elon Musk announced that he would give away $1 million per day to a registered voter until Election Day.<\/span><span class=\"caption__source\" data-testid=\"caption__source\">Chesnot \/ Getty Images file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">Questions about the legality of these cash payments abounded on Saturday night, as election law experts pointed to various provisions in federal law that prohibited making cash payments to voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project and an NBC News election law analyst, called the payments \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/?p=146397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clearly illegal<\/a>\u201d in a post on his website Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He pointed to a federal law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/USCODE-2023-title52\/pdf\/USCODE-2023-title52-subtitleI-chap103-sec10307.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">52 U.S.C. 10307(c<\/a>), which says that any individual who \u201cpays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote\u00a0or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hasen told NBC News on Sunday that Musk\u2019s PAC is only offering the payments to registered voters, not the general public at large, which is what could make the scheme illegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cEssentially what you\u2019re doing is you are creating a lottery. You\u2019re creating a lottery where the only people eligible to participate in the lottery are people who register to vote, or are registered to vote, and that\u2019s illegal,\u201d Hasen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He noted that the general intent behind election laws prohibiting bribery is to prevent people from buying votes, but \u201cyou don\u2019t have to say you have to vote for a particular candidate in order to be breaking this law. &#8230; It can be to either incentivize people to register or vote, or it can be to reward them,\u201d Hasen told NBC News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Musk and a representative for America PAC did not immediately respond to requests for comment on this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s unclear whether federal authorities are looking into Musk\u2019s $1 million payments, but Hasen said that federal authorities have the option to prosecute Musk or simply issue a warning telling the mogul to stop paying registered voters in this way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">\u201cIt seems like if this law is going to be enforced, it needs to be deterred,\u201d Hasen said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/pennsylvania-gov-shapiro-law-enforcement-take-look-elon-musk-voter-pay-rcna176279\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday that tech mogul Elon Musk\u2019s plan to give money to registered voters in Pennsylvania is \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s something that law enforcement could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116472\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}