Justice Department questioned Elon Musk’s America PAC about the organization’s plans for a $1 million for voter registrations in swing states. Elon Musk recently endorsed Donald Trump and said to spend heavily on his presidential campaign the initiative that any participant must be a registered voter in a selected number of the battleground states to be in contention for the millions of dollars promised to sign a petition in support of the First and Second Amendments.
The Justice Department’s public integrity section has sent a warning letter to Musk’s PAC citing possible contravention of federal law which compels the payment of people to register to vote. As legal challenges rose, on the second day of the sweepstakes, America PAC changed tactics and presented the $1 million prize as job offers to act as PAC spokespeople.
When asked about the campaign during Trump’s campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Musk defended it, and aid that they plan to get over a million signatures for the petition from swing states. He pointed out that winners could be from any political party or no party at all, voting was voluntary and the sweepstakes was not aimed at Republican voter registration as some would want to presume.
The Pennsylvania Governor, Josh Shapiro, said he was worried about the operation of the sweepstakes and urged the state’s attorney general to seek legal answers to the issue. Shapiro, a Democratic governor and the former state attorney general, angered Musk on his new social media site X by challenging the credibility of Shapiro’s criticism of the plan.
The matter remains quite delicate as members of Congress try to decide whether the changes to sweepstakes program fall under legal federal election laws. The Justice Department involvement points to escalating worry over creative strategies in the election which will lead to vote buying.
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