Elon Musk has already spent millions on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, but his latest gambit — an offer to give $1 million each to two voters — might run afoul of state law, election experts said.
Musk posted on X early Friday morning that he would “give a talk in Wisconsin” on Sunday night, two days before the April 1 election, limiting attendance to people who had already voted in the race. While there, he said he planned to “personally hand over two checks for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote.” He has since deleted the post.
The effort is similar to Musk’s previous million-dollar-check handouts, which started last year. Then, his political action committee handed out $1 million a day as part of efforts to increase voter registration in swing states. While the Justice Department warned the PAC that the sweepstakes might run afoul of federal election laws that make it a crime to offer cash or prizes to induce people to register to vote, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ultimately allowed it.