Musk’s Super PAC Offers $47 to Those Who Help It Find Trump Voters

• Oct. 7, 2024

Elon Musk is dangling portion of his luck arsenic portion of a perchance costly statement to place apt voters for Donald Trump successful 7 battleground states.

The ace PAC founded by Mr. Musk, the billionaire caput of Tesla and SpaceX, is circulating a petition successful which voters pledge their enactment for the First and Second Amendments. And helium is offering $47 for each elector recruited to motion it.

The extremity is “to get 1 cardinal registered voters successful plaything states to motion successful enactment of the Constitution, particularly state of code and the close to carnivore arms,” the petition says. If recruiters managed to find 1 cardinal radical to motion the petition, Mr. Musk would beryllium connected the hook for a staggering $47 million.

The petition, which is besides being circulated to Mr. Musk’s 200 cardinal followers connected his societal media level X, is meant to place voters who are peculiarly energized, a communal list-building enactment astatine each levels of politics. Those voters, who person taken the inaugural to motion a petition affirming their blimpish views, could past beryllium particularly targeted by Mr. Musk’s organization, America PAC, to crook retired for Mr. Trump.

Like different online list-circulation efforts, this 1 collects information connected signatories. The website asks for the signer’s name, email address, compartment number, mailing code and the referrer’s information.

There appears to beryllium nary bounds connected the fig of registered voters that idiosyncratic tin refer, raising the anticipation that the referral programme could beryllium gamed. But the ace PAC says that it volition check: “Eligible radical whitethorn lone database 1 eligible idiosyncratic arsenic their referrer. Before outgo is made, America PAC volition verify the accuracy of each accusation of the referrer and referee.”