• ABCDE@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Then read through the website linked and understand what is going on here if you’re not following.

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      12 days 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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        12 days ago

        Nothing wrong with paying people to vote in general

        It’s literally illegal.

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          12 days ago

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

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            12 days 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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                  11 days ago

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

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                    11 days 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.