• dhork
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    6 months ago

    Except they were careful and never actually said “we will give you money to vote for Harris/against Trump”. Paying you to call him a human toilet isn’t against that law.

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      6 months ago

      But the law also includes this language:

      Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote… or to vote for…

      I take that to mean to pay someone to vote, or to vote for someone. And in this case, CAH is definitely paying people to vote.

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        The reward is specifically for people to come up with a plan on how they would vote. The reward isn’t technically contingent on someone acting on that plan.

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        6 months ago

        Legally speaking they’re not paying people to vote, only to do voting-adjacent tasks which is legal

        The Register went into the more detail on the legality of it all

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          Thank you. Im glad to be wrong, and it’s good to see someone dissecting this issue.

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        They’re paying people to apologize for not voting last time. What that means is up for the reader. Not the same.