Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Musk's $1,000,000 Voting Lottery Illegal?" video.

  1. It's not even that. As the video pointed out, there's likely selection bias there so the people signing that pledge are more likely to vote for Trump than Harris or whatever 3rd party options are on the ballot. And he's doing this only in states where the outcome isn't more or less set already. It's bad enough that between gerrymandering of the house districts, the small state bonus that applies to Electoral College where they get an additional 2 electors for having Senators and the all states get the same number of Senators, but to now be allowing candidates to direct incentives to people most likely to tip things in favor of their candidate should cause people to question whether this country still has a democracy at all.
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  2. Oh, so the Canadian technique then.
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  3. It's not really a surprise, given that those sorts seem to think that the other side is just as bad. And that is true to an extent,t he difference is the proportion of the left that's that bad compared with the proportion of the right that is.
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  4. The thing that gets me is that by the time a lot of this stuff is litigated, the consequences are already felt. We've had a few illegal campaigns over the years around here where they were able to succeed with their aims and the penalty didn't come until well after the election, so they could basically just consider the cost of litigation and the ultimate fines as part of the cost of interfering in the election to give their side an illegal advantage. Not to mention that they were allowing a man to continue to run political campaigns despite having embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars while claiming to be working for free. Most people would have gone to prison for that much embezzlement.
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  5.  @JKabc1994  SCOTUS has been going down that path more and more over time in ways that make no sense at all. At this point, it's virtually impossible to be convicted of bribery due to the repeated bad rulings from SCOUTUS. It pretty much requires a "Take this money for engaging in that corrupt practice" in order to qualify under their reasoning. Which is probably influenced by all the overt bribery of SCOTUS justices of late.
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