Headline Roundup • October 9th, 2024
Elon Musk Offers $47 Reward Per Petition Signature in Swing States
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Elon Musk is recruiting voters in swing states to sign a petition authored by his pro-Trump America PAC, offering a $47 incentive per signee.
Key Quote: Musk wrote on his platform X, “Sign our petition to support the Constitution! Also earn $47 for every person you refer to sign the petition if they’re in a swing state. Goal is to get 1M voters in swing states to show support for free speech & right to bear arms.”
The Petition: The petition doesn’t formally ask signees to vote, but rather to support the First and Second Amendments, and is only available to registered voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. When signing, signees are asked for their name, email address, cell number, mailing address, and the referrer’s information.
For Context: Federal law prohibits compensating someone for voting, or registering to vote, but does allow incentives for individuals who help gather petition signatures. Some states have laws prohibiting financial incentives based on a target number of signatures. America PAC is headquartered in Texas, which has no laws regarding signature compensation.
How the Media Covered It: Several outlets on the left described Musk’s efforts as targeting potential “Trump” voters, while most outlets from the center and right described them as targeting “swing-state” voters
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Doug Mills/The New York Times
Elon Musk is dangling part of his fortune as part of a potentially expensive arrangement to identify likely voters for Donald Trump in seven battleground states.
The super PAC founded by Mr. Musk, the billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX, is circulating a petition in which voters pledge their support for the First and Second Amendments. And he is offering $47 for each voter recruited to sign it.
The goal is “to get 1 million registered voters in swing states to sign in support of the Constitution, especially freedom of...
The America PAC, founded by tech billionaire Elon Musk, is asking the public to sign a petition in favor of the First and Second Amendments and offering supporters $47 for each subsequent registered voter they get to sign the petition in swing states. Musk, who has endorsed former President Trump’s White House bid, encouraged his followers on X to sign the pledge and make referrals. “For every person you refer who is a swing state voter, you get $47! Easy money,” Musk wrote on his social media platform. The petition...
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Elon Musk’s America PAC is offering supporters $47 for each registered voter they get to sign a petition saying they will support the First and Second Amendments.
On his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, he encouraged followers to sign the America PAC (political action committee) pledge and make referrals.
“For every person you refer who is a swing state voter, you get $47! Easy money,” Musk said on X, reposting a remark made by conservative commentator Jack Posobiec.
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