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A bipartisan elections panel found that billionaire Elon Musk likely violated Wisconsin’s election bribery law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters during the state’s Supreme Court election last year.
The Wisconsin Election Committee voted 5-1 last week to refer two complaints against Musk to the Brown County district attorney’s office after finding probable cause that the giveaways broke the state’s election bribery law, commission spokesperson Emilee Miklas told the Associated Press.
The panel, which consists of three Democrats and three Republicans, said in a motion that Musk broke the law by offering the $1 million to Wisconsin voters who cast their ballots in the Supreme Court election “in order to induce them to vote in that election,” according to a motion reviewed by the AP.
Wisconsin law states that anyone who “offers, gives, lends or promises to give or lend, or endeavors to procure, anything of value, or any office or employment or any privilege or immunity to, or for, any elector, or to or for any other person, in order to induce any elector,” is in violation of the law.
Musk, who is the CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, first announced the giveaway on social media ahead of a public talk in Wisconsin. He later deleted the post and clarified his plan after experts warned his move could be illegal.
“To clarify a previous post, entrance is limited to those who have signed the petition in opposition to activist judges. I will also hand over checks for a million dollars to 2 people to be spokesmen for the petition,” he wrote on his social platform X.
Musk became one of the largest financial backers of the Supreme Court race, spending at least $20 million supporting Republican candidate Brad Schimel.
Schimel was then easily defeated by liberal Judge Susan Crawford in what became one of the most expensive judicial elections in history, topping $100 million in spending as other big-name donors like billionaire George Soros poured cash into the race.
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