Talking Feds with Harry Litman
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Musk’s Lottery Violates Federal Law
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10:18Now PlayingHarry talks with UCLA Law Professor Rick Hasen, editor of the Election Law Blog and Director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project, about Elon Musk’s promise to give $1million a day to people who have registered to vote and sign a petition supporting 1st and 2nd Amendment rights. Hasen explains the workings of the federal criminal prohibition against paying people to register to vote. Musk’s lottery may make the payment indirect, or even inapplicable to certain persons, but there’s no way around the conclusion that he is paying some people to register. Hasen and Litman then turn to remedies, including for other of Musk’s pro-Trump conduct, such as spreading misinformation about ineligible voters supposedly on the rolls in Michigan. As is often the case in the hair-trigger timing of election law violations, it may well be that only the DOJ can effectively sue to stop Musk from breaking the law and that they are unlikely to do so for a number of reasons, including concern with the political appearance.
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