Musk’s $1 million voter petition lottery falls in a legal gray area, experts say

Kevin Collier is a reporter covering cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy for NBC News.

Elon Musk’s daily $1 million lottery for registered swing state voters who sign his Super PAC’s political petition falls into a legal gray area and could potentially violate election law, three experts told NBC News. The petition, created by Musk’s America Political Action Committee, comes amid his larger campaign over the last week to register conservative voters in swing states. Paying someone to vote or to register to vote is explicitly illegal under federal law.

Rick Hasen, the director of the UCLA School of Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project and an NBC News election law analyst, wrote Saturday that he believes Musk’s plan is “clearly illegal” because the petition requires signers to be registered voters in particular states.

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