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159 points

pretty fucking close to vote buying if you ask me

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45 points

Highly doubt Musk will pay, also hilarious that the reason is “to protect constitutional rights” when the person who he is endorsing has 0 integrity for that asides for freedom of his own speech…

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And only the speech where he lies, or is racist, or sexist.

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I’ll take his money and then not vote for Trump. It’s not like he can tell.

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He can, though. In another post about Cards Against Humanity’s project, they explained how criminally easy it was to create a PAC, request and acquire voters information. They can see your registered voter information and who you’ve voted for in the past.

Edit: Someone corrected me that you can’t see exactly who people voted for, but, you can see party affiliation, and if you voted. Going by that data, he can assume you voted for the party you’re affiliated with.

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Voting records don’t show whom you voted for. They do show party affiliation, which they can infer from.

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I’d like to see that source. The voter information should be limited to their registered address and what primary or caucus they voted in - not their individual votes, which are anonymized. At most, a PAC should only be able to infer (from the voter information alone) a likelihood of which political party the voter is associated with. Now, if they take that voters info and combine it with open source intelligence, social media, advertising intelligence/marketing data, they can make much better assumptions.

At the locality level, the voter is issued a serialized ballot. The local township, city, whatever keeps a log that “voter x received ballot Y”, but that’s where the association ends. Before being tabulated (read by the optical scanning machine and dropped into a sealed chamber), an election official removes to perforated strip containing the serial number, and the voter deposits the ballot (deserialized) into the tabulator. There is no input to the tabulator to indicate which ballot, or which voter was just processed.

The registration receipts and ballots (without serial numbers) are kept by the locality under seal for a designated retention period.

Source: local election official

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68 points

Honestly, I kinda hope he can tell. I’d love for there to be a paper trail of me accepting $100 from Elon and then voting for Harris. Hell, I’d put the money toward renting a highway billboard as close to the Tesla HQ as possible showing the receipts. Fuck him.

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53 points

Get the money, donate to Harris

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27 points

The term you’re looking for is bribery.

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34 points

The term is actually “electioneering.” And, he’s getting close to the illegal kind.

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