Wait. I get paid $47 to refer a friend to sign a petition to get bombarded with MAGA bullshit? Good thing. I am capable of making “real” good friends in swing states. I imagine they won’t be bothered with getting spam emails.
Buying an election. Gotcha.
corruption yes, but what’s to stop an organized group, having one member refer the other hundred members, split the money, then not vote the way the pledge says they should.
. * wink *
not saying anyone should do it… purely theoretical thought experiment
. * wink wink *
At best you’ll get a lifelong avalanche of mental illness-inducing spam to your mailbox, phone, text, and email.
At worst you’ll get money taken from your bank account without your knowledge. I wouldn’t trust anything that has to do with Trump with your bank account info, even as a joke.
Buying votes.
I live in a swing state. Are we saying I could offer registered voters $20 for their signatures and turn a profit?
I think it’s drawn at porn/prostitution lines. You cant pay for a signature but you can pay someone to get signatures.
What are autographs, then?
IDK what uoure asking
You said you can’t pay for signatures, then how are autographs legal?
I think it’s technically a drawing.
Assuming Elon actually pays, sure.
Totally unrelated fun fact: Twitter HQ moved because Elon refused to pay rent and got evicted.
Good point.
How is this NOT election interference ?
They’re paying people to collect signatures… not for the signatures themselves. This is specifically allowed in most (all?) states for organizations to be able to pay people a wage to spend the time collecting signatures for ballot initiatives. Most states require the person collecting signatures to be registered with the state if they are being paid however. So unless they’re doing that and sponsoring and registering every person collecting these signatures with the State, they are likely still violating the law there. Volunteer unpaid circulators don’t have to be registered, but if you’re getting paid for it, you’re probably required to be registered to an organization that’s responsible for what you do.
Note: This is usually done via a standard hourly wage, or a price per sheet of good signatures. Many sigs (I’ve seen 1/3 to 1/2) are thrown out because the requirements are extremely strict for processing. A good signature or sheet of signatures can be completely invalidated by an error made by the person collecting it, or because it’s on a page with the wrong county listed (even though every signature line also requires an address to verify). Simple errors unrelated to signatures get entire pages thrown out.
Source: Was trained and registered as a paid petition circulator with the State of Arizona earlier this year.
Wow , really appreciate this answer.
The whole thing to me is unsettling because of how gamified and crowd sourced it is. As if it’s some sort of gofundme page
Oh it definitely skirts the line.
https://apps.azsos.gov/apps/election/circulatorportal/
Pursuant to Arizona Law (A.R.S. § 19-118; A.R.S. § 16-321; A.R.S. § 19-205.01), a circulator must register with the Secretary of State’s Office if the circulator:
- is not a resident of this state and will circulate candidate petitions, recall petitions, or statewide initiative or referendum petitions,
- is paid to circulate recall petitions, statewide initiative or referendum petitions (whether or not the circulator is a resident of this state).
Thinking about it more, and looking more into what’s actually being done however… this doesn’t appear to an official petition of any kind as far as I can see. It’s basically a petition.org page, and just as useless. And they’re paying people for it. Free money to sign people up for unlimited bullshit emails and junk mail from the MAGA team forever.
Also, it seems this tweet was deleted? I can’t find it on Elon’s page anymore, unless it’s just their bullshit algorithm putting other shit on top now instead of being obviously chronological.
Southern states have had their judiciary replaced with incompetents and yes-men. Regulatory agencies in many states are entirely broken.
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Weeeeellllllllll does your bank account have seemingly 10000 lifetimes worth of money? That’ll tell you if it’s legal or not for you to do it.
Oh it is. It’s just that Trump is doing SO much illegal shit, he’s overloading our system of law to the point where it can’t keep up anymore.
He won’t live long enough for our system to prosecute him for everything- so he’s going for broke.
Same in Hungary, where anti-hate speech laws are only being enforced seldom, and the last such incident was due to an opposition politician saying “heterosexual white christian man” on TV, while the now doxxed editors of kuruc info can still deny the holocaust on their foreign hosted webshite, that is also being partly funded by a Florida Republican (of course).
I heard a really depressing podcast the other day about all the cooperation between Republicans and Orban. They’re well on their way to destroying democracy here as well.
They’ll fix it retroactively once they get to power
All I see is a big sign that says “Free $47, paid for by your sucker in chief”
His record of not paying bills makes that unlikely
I can’t believe he’s not offering $69 because he’s a chud
What exactly do you mean by corruption?
America
Same republicans froth at their mouth because “DeMoCraTS aRE BuSinG VoTErs!!!” without even a shred of proof
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Do this, and also do the Cards Against Humanity $100. https://www.apologize.lol/
Nah, it’s corruption only when poor people do it. When rich people do it it’s just “smart business”.
Do they have to be real people?
Yes, but they don’t have to be red voters
He is fighting for free speech as much as the Republic of North Korea is a republic.
If he’s anything like his new king, he won’t pay a cent to any of the chuds that take him up on this offer
