They didn’t ask for proof of registration to vote though, they asked for a voting plan. I don’t know if that’s enough of a distinction? It really sounds like the proof of registration requirement was the illegal piece though.

Patience, padawan. It’s coming.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/giuliani-ordered-property-luxury-items-election-workers.html?

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/1158207425/harvey-weinstein-los-angeles

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/trump-associates-prison-sentence-crimes-list

It’s still not certain. A lot of those people are free now. But that’s not a new development, by any means. For a long, long time the system in Washington was that if you had the right kind of money and friends, and left the big fish alone, you could do whatever you wanted. Like a lot of corrupt systems, that way continued and festered until it began to collapse under its own bloated weight. Some amount of daylight is starting to break through, now, and you can be a big-name crook and still be treated like a crook.

It’s not sure which way it’s going to go, though, long term. At its core, the election in 2 weeks is a referendum on whether we’re going to change that, and move some amount of incremental distance towards sending some big fish to real big boy prison when they break the law, or if we’re going to continue it and let it fester, and expand by 10 times.

If Trump wins, the person who plows his car into you at a protest might get a full pardon, because his heart was in the right place. Or the person who guns down a crowd of Democrats in line to vote. Or the person who made the plans for breaking into congress and taking all the wrong people away in zip cuffs, to the crowd waiting outside.

Make sure to vote.

“We’re not asking nor paying people to pledge or promise to vote (or not vote), or even to register to vote, all of which would be illegal,” she said. “Whether people actually use the plans they make is entirely up to them — we’ll have paid up regardless.”

Musk’s PAC is limiting its participants to registered voters. That’s the key difference.

Even the Cards Against Humanity thing is apparently very close to the borderline into illegality. Musk’s is unambiguously over it.

ffs = “for fuck’s sake”

Articles about every country does the same exact thing. I do agree with you though.

This is specifically an American politics community, though.

Bud this is a US politics community. Using standard American TLAs (three letter acronyms ;) ) in an American community when discussing an American article is completely acceptable imo.

No point in getting a little spicy when you’re the one out of place - “when in Rome”, yeah?