In order to sign the petition and enter the $1m draw, a person must be registered to vote in one of the seven swing states—a potentially tempting offer for an unregistered voter. “Once you start paying people as an incentive or a reward to register to vote,

Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway for voters who sign his free-speech and gun-rights petition falls into a gray area of election law, and legal experts are divided about whether the billionaire supporter of Donald Trump could be running afoul of prohibitions on paying people to register to vote.

Elon Musk's pledge to give away $1 million a day to voters for signing his PAC's petition is prompting questions about its legality.

At least one election law expert is already questioning the legality of Musk’s million-dollar giveaway for supporters of his PAC’s petition.

Former federal prosecutors are now calling for an investigation into the payment-for-signatures scheme that toes the line of election laws

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