Tech Billionaire Musk Announces $1m Award To Wisconsin Voters For Signing Petition Against Judges

Tech billionaire, Elon Musk on Thursday announced the release of a 1 million dollar award to Scott A. from Green Bay for supporting his group’s petition against ‘activist judges’ in Wisconsin.

Musk, who is heading the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, announced this in a post he shared on X microblogging platform.

“Exciting to announce our first million dollar award for supporting our petition against activist judges in Wisconsin!

“Next million dollar award will be announced in 2 days”, Musk wrote.

PAC, a political action committee backed by Musk is offering Wisconsin voters $100 in exchange for signing a petition against “activist judges,” and as well support the administration of President Donald Trump.

The American PAC announced the petition in a post on X, promising an additional $100 for each referred signer.

The petition stated, “Petition in Opposition to Activist Judges should interpret laws as written, not rewrite them to fit their personal or political agendas. By signing below, I’m rejecting the actions of activist judges who impose their own views and demanding a judiciary that respects its role-interpreting, not legislating.”

The campaign for Susan Crawford, the Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court, said Musk was trying to buy votes ahead of the April 1 election. The offer was made two days after early voting started in the hotly contested race between Crawford and Brad Schimel, the preferred candidate of Musk and Republicans.

The winner of the election will determine whether the court remains under liberal control or flips to a conservative majority.

Musk’s PAC used a nearly identical tactic ahead of the November presidential election, offering to pay $1 million a day to voters in Wisconsin and six other battleground states who signed a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments.

Philadelphia’s district attorney sued in an attempt to stop the payments under Pennsylvania law. But a judge said that prosecutors failed to show that the effort was an illegal lottery and it was allowed to continue through Election Day.

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