Philadelphia DA sues Elon Musk to stop $1 million election lottery

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is suing Elon Musk and his Donald Trump-supporting America PAC. Filed Monday successful Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, it’s the archetypal ineligible enactment against Musk’s $1 cardinal regular grant offered to registered voters.

As reported antecedently by CNN and the Philadelphia Inquirer, the suit argues that each lotteries successful Pennsylvania indispensable beryllium tally by the authorities and calls the statement deceptive, saying that “Though Musk says that a winner’s enactment is ‘random,’ that appears mendacious due to the fact that aggregate winners that person been selected are individuals who person shown up astatine Trump rallies successful Pennsylvania.”

According to the suit, “Since launching connected October 19, 2024, America PAC claims it awarded $1,000,000 checks to 9 individuals done its lottery, 4 of whom unrecorded successful Pennsylvania. It made those awards connected October 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, and 27, 2024. No victor was announced connected October 23.”

The suit alleges that Musk’s connection “is a lottery. And it is indisputably an unlawful lottery” nether Pennsylvania’s laws due to the fact that it asks for citizens to springiness their idiosyncratic accusation and marque a governmental pledge successful speech for a accidental astatine winning the prize.

This attack goes astir the arguments astir whether the connection violates predetermination law, as we addressed with respective experts past week. Still, it’s unclear however it volition impact the giveaway earlier Election Day.