A Pennsylvania judge has declined to immediately halt Elon Musk’s scheme to hand out $1mn cheques to voters who sign a pro-Donald Trump petition in the state.
Philadelphia district attorney Lawrence Krasner had sued to stop the practice, claiming it amounted to an “illegal lottery scheme”. Lawyers for Musk countered at a hearing on Monday that awardees were carefully selected on merit.
Since the scheme’s launch, Musk’s America Pac has awarded more than a dozen of the prizes in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona.
The Department of Justice had previously warned the scheme may flout US law, which bars paying individuals to register to vote.
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