Elon Musk encourages people to vote before the election. For this, they distribute money. Democratic leaders oppose it.
The US Department of Justice has warned Elon Musk’s Campaign America PAC. Musk is donating $1 million (Rs 8.4 crore) every day to voters who cast their ballots ahead of the elections. According to CNN, the Justice Department said this could constitute a violation of the law.
Presidential elections will be held in the United States on November 6 (according to Indian time). Musk supports former President Donald Trump on this. They are spending millions of dollars on Trump. The announcement to give money to voters is also linked to this. Its goal is to create an environment favorable to the Republican Party in swing states.
Musk had said he would give $1 million to a randomly selected winner each day from October 17 to November 5 as part of the early voting program. He also set conditions to this effect, which raises questions.
Musk announced the names of 3 winners Musk also gives $1 million to each voter every day in a lottery. He also presented a check for $1 million to a man and woman in Pennsylvania last Saturday and Sunday. His team said Monday’s winner was chosen from North Carolina.
Musk said: the project is not intended for a single party Democratic leaders call Musk’s initial plan a violation of the law. Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said Musk’s announcement was extremely concerning. Musk gave arguments in his defense on social networks. Musk said the winner was chosen by lottery. They don’t know if he’s Republican or Democratic. They can belong to any party.
Winner of Musk’s early voting system. The photo is from Sunday (October 20).
The first winners of Musk’s Early Scheme. The photo is from Saturday October 19.
This time, 70% of people can vote before the elections In America, voting before elections is called advance voting or pre-election voting. Early voting has already been done in American elections. Although in previous elections Democrats dominated pre-election voting, this time Republicans began to take the lead in some major states.
Before 1988, there were only six states where early voting was widespread. Since 1992, the trend toward early voting before elections has increased. 7% of people voted in the 1992 election. According to NBC, this year, 14.5 million people will be able to vote before the election. It’s about 70%.
According to the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, about 60% of Democratic voters and 32% of Republican voters voted by mail in 2020. Clearly, Biden took advantage of this in the last election as well. This is why former President Donald Trump repeatedly made statements against early voting. He claims there is fraud in mail-in voting.
Despite this, the Republican Party is educating voters about the need to vote early in this election.
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