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submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

Summary

Elon Musk's America PAC is offering $100 to registered voters who sign a petition opposing "activist judges" ahead of Wisconsin's Supreme Court election on April 1st.

The legality of this tactic is debated, as it doesn’t mandate voting but requires voter registration.

The race pits conservative Brad Schimel, backed by Musk’s $14 million, against liberal Judge Susan Crawford, with liberals aiming to retain a 4-3 majority.

Musk's support also ties to Tesla’s lawsuit against Wisconsin's dealership ban.

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[-] doug@lemmy.today 19 points 3 months ago

Cool. Another blatant bribery case that nothing will be done about because he’s above the law.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

Now now, let's not be uncharitable.

I'm sure someone is working on filing a legal challenge. Thereafter everyone will need several years to collate evidence, then getting everyone in a room can be tough, and then there might be appeals.

In as little as 7 or 8 short years we could have an answer as to whether or not this petition was allowed to take place.

[-] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

They'll just dismiss it as the voting is over

[-] krebssteven@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

While I get the cynicism, it’s not like there are no means to stall a possibly illegal practice until a proper ruling has been done. The judicative branch isn’t entirely toothless and isn’t ignorant of the reality of time-sensitivity.

Tell that to the guys who got deported to El Salvador when the federal judge ordered the planes to turn around mid-flight.

[-] krebssteven@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Oh you mean ignoring the rule of law makes the judicative branch irrelevant? Who would’ve thonk.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago

You're right, but sadly in recent years I've just lost all faith that any kind of timely intervention will be implemented.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 17 points 3 months ago

It was illegal last year and the people in charge did not act. Now what're you gonna do? Shortsighted fucking idiots.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Same shit he did that helped him steal the last presidential election. These motherfuckers are buying judges in plain sight.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I guarantee he used this tactic in '24 to get a list of names and submitted fake ballots in those people's names with an AI algorithm using Ethan Shao Tran's (doge boy who won hackathon in 2020) ballotproof software. Not 1 recount in any of the swing states. If this goes the way I think it will, a recount MUST be demanded.

[-] Flisty@mstdn.social 10 points 3 months ago

@Raiderkev @MicroWave the Election Truth Alliance have found some weird numbers (as have Smart Elections) and are currently asking for people to sign a petition for Pennsylvania to hand recount three specific counties https://youtu.be/LBDqYxZoc14

[-] Zier@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago

Hackers need to empty his bank accounts.

[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

So can I take his money and vote how I want? How would he know?

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It's what I would do. Rich people think everyone else is motivated solely by money, it's kind of their weakness.

[-] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

you certainly can. the vote is secret and he'd not be allowed to demand/buy a specific vote. which he is doing, but adding some layer of obfuscation

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

I'm still not convinced that he isn't doing this to pull some sort of election fraud

[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

He's already committed election fraud. 2016, he openly solicited an enemy nation to interfere with our elections, which is treason.

There won't be any peace in this country until him and EVERY SINGLE ONE of his co-conspirators are publicly executed

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

This, in and of itself, is literally election fraud.

[-] whaleiam@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Not free speech

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Arrest this bastard and throw him in Florence ADmax for life!

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It gives them information with which to rig elections. Exactly what he's doing with the entire nation's social security information. Train a model on that, and you instantly have all the information you need to rig an election that is practically undetectable unless you actually go back and review every single ballot, which we know won't happen.

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

They’ve bragged about fixing the last election. There are no consequences. We’ll just have to content ourselves with watching Tesla burn along with American democracy.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

Please take this $100 to turn against your working class friends and help out a billionare in need.

[-] 5opn0o30@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

In WI and will take the $ and vote how I want. I assume they have some other data preventing this.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I mean go for it... I assume the strategy on the whole is just a reverse of the supression strategies etc... IE I assume the vast majority of the petitions are going in areas that overwhelmingly voted for trump... and the contact information will be used to overwhelmingly flood with reminders and pushes for them to go out and vote.

IE it's a legal absolute no to coersively hinder or push voting to people who will vote a certain way, but in this overly tracked flooded with data world. You can find the trends that allow you to target things that aren't illegal, but have overwhelming correlation.

[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Hmm, so then what we need to do is create honey pot phishing schemes pretending to be musk offering money to vote, but then never send the money, and send out incorrect information regarding the date/time/place of the vote. In addition get people to submit their bank account info to you so you can 'electronically deposit' the money. Only instead, submit the account info to online forums used by criminals.

The end result will be that people won't get paid, won't show up to vote at the right time/place, and then have all sorts of fraud attempts on their accounts, and they'll blame it on musk

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I OPPOSE Activist Judges which is why I'm Voting for the One BANKROLLED by a BILLIONAIRE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT!

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