• Admiral Patrick
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    6927 days ago

    Federal law makes it a crime for anyone who “pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting.”

    Musk’s little lottery is shitting on the spirit of that law at best and is in violation of it at worst. AFAIK, that’s why the DOJ issued a warning rather than something legally stronger.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 days ago

      spirit of that law

      The SCOTUS only cares about that when it enables them to pull some serious bullshit out of their ass. Otherwise they’re strict textualists and will say “It WaS a PeTiTiOn, FulLy LeGal AnD cOoL!” So they’ll be sure to step in and stop any action from being taken.

      • snooggums
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        627 days ago

        The SCOTUS scabs you are referring to make up their own interpretation of the law. They never csre about the actual spirirt of the law any more than they care about precedent.