The mind-numbing irony of Elon Musk's million-dollar election scheme – MSNBC News

A bedrock principle of our representative government is that the wealthy should not be able to buy elections. To that end, our federal laws explicitly aim to reduce the influence of money on our elections because of the dangers posed by people purchasing, attempting to purchase, or appearing to purchase, electoral outcomes. A federal law dating back to 1925 criminalizes attempts to pay people to vote or not vote. This was one of the nation’s first comprehensive attempts to limit the […]
The mind-numbing irony of Elon Musk's million-dollar election scheme – MSNBC News