• flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Having read up on the article about musk doing this, he’s not restricting it to people who are going to vote for a specific party which is the thing I take issue with.

    Nothing wrong with paying people to vote in general, paying people only if they are going to vote the way you want them to sucks

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      2 months ago

      Nothing wrong with paying people to vote in general

      It’s literally illegal.

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        2 months ago

        Note the “in general” part (paying them to vote in the way they want to)

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          2 months ago

          Note that it’s still illegal to pay someone to vote, full stop. Does not matter if you’re not telling them specifically who to vote for.

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                2 months ago

                Literally at no point in any of this comment chain have I mentioned legality

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                  2 months ago

                  No, I did, and then you tried to correct me, and then realized you were still wrong so you pivoted to this.

                  Regardless, the federal government disagrees heavily with your assessment that it’s fine to pay someone to vote. Hence why that’s not what’s actually happening here.