A judge in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Monday will weigh whether to stop Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day giveaway to registered voters ahead of the US presidential election. Elon Musk and his political action committee are backing Donald Trump.
Since October 19, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been giving a $1 million cheque every day to a randomly selected voter who has signed his petition supporting free speech and gun rights.
Elon Musk’s offer is limited to registered voters in seven states expected to decide the election – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Elon Musk has become an outspoken Trump supporter this year, promoting the former president on his X social media platform.
Judge weighs challenge to Elon Musk
The Trump campaign is broadly reliant on outside groups for canvassing voters, meaning the super PAC founded by Musk, the world’s richest man, plays an outsized role in a razor-thin election.
So far, Musk’s America PAC has awarded $1 million prizes to 16 people and said the final prize will be given on November 5.
Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania, one of seven battleground states likely to determine the outcome of the race between Trump and Harris. Whichever candidate wins the state will receive its 19 electoral votes out of a total of 270 needed to win.
Musk and his America PAC sought to move the case to federal court.
But on Friday, US District Judge Gerald Pappert in Philadelphia federal court said the case belonged in state court and later that day Judge Angelo Foglietta scheduled a hearing in the case.
The giveaway falls in a gray area of election law, and legal experts are divided on whether Musk could be violating federal laws against paying people to register to vote.
The US Department of Justice has warned America PAC the giveaway could violate federal law, according to media reports, but federal prosecutors have not taken any public action.
Musk has so far given nearly $120 million to America PAC, according to federal disclosures.
SOurce: SABC
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