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US Court Allows Musk to Give Away $1 Million to Voters
In the US state of Pennsylvania, a court has allowed entrepreneur and founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk to continue his daily $1 million raffle among voters in the key state, NBC News reports.
Because the court made its decision a day before voting began, Musk's political action committee (PAC) left another day before the draw.
Earlier, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner asked the court to ban Musk from participating in the lottery. Since October 19, the businessman has been donating $1 million every day to voters who have signed petitions on free speech and gun rights.
In addition to paying millions of dollars to some signatories, the PAC promised to pay $47 and $100 to every other registered voter in the swing state who signed the petition. Krasner argued that such pranks were illegal. But Chris Gober, a lawyer for the commission, said the effort was not a lottery because the winners were not chosen at random.
He explained that the PAC would "earn" $1 million by selecting a winner from among those who would actually serve as spokespersons.
Krasner, who was called as a witness, claimed that the scam was actually a data mining operation to obtain voters' personal information in exchange for the promise of a reward.