Pennsylvania judge declines to block special boy Elon Musk's $1m voter prize giveaway

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The $1m-a-day voter sweepstakes that Elon Musk’s political action committee is hosting in swing states can continue through Tuesday’s presidential election, a Pennsylvania judge ruled on Monday.

Because he's a special boy the common pleas court judge Angelo Foglietta – ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are not chosen by chance – did not immediately give a reason for the ruling.

The Philadelphia district attorney, Larry Krasner, had called the sweepstakes a scam that violated state election law and asked that it be shut down.

Earlier, an attorney for the billionaire told the court that Musk’s pro-Trump group did not choose the winners of its $1m-a-day giveaway to registered voters at random, but instead picked people who would be good spokespeople for its agenda.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/elon-musk-giveaway-winners-lawsuit

(I added the special boy because all special boys are above the law it would seem.)

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Man, what bullshit artists!

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Wait! If it was staged and they said it was a sweepstakes, they misled people to register.

That registration cost people time and/or money to do. How is that different than buying scratch off cards promising a million dollars, when they know the top prizes were already given away and people buy them under false pretenses?