We urge you to investigate whether America PAC’s payments are prohibited payments for voter registration. We recognize that they are framed as payments for signing a petition, or for referring voters who sign,
Moreover, while the usual purpose of a petition is to demonstrate public support for some proposition, America PAC’s petition does not appear to serve that purpose,
We are aware of nothing like this in modern political history,
Serious questions arising under laws that directly regulate the voting process must be an exception,
I think it straddles the line, and it’s a little unclear whether it goes over the line or not,
I’ve never heard of a million-dollar lottery in the last weeks of a presidential campaign, to either sign a petition or to induce people to register, so we’re in new legal territory here,
This is at best very questionable legally,
You can only register to vote in Pennsylvania until today. I just see this as a political stunt. It’s a stunt to mine people’s data, to build up an email list for contacts, for campaigning, for mobilization,
The relevant legal question is whether this is payment to induce people to register. If it is, then it violates the law. If it’s payment to induce people to sign a petition, then it’s not a problem,
We all agree that registering to vote is important to democracy,
It is illegal to give out money on the condition that recipients register as voters,
Just as it is a pretty aggressive move on his part to do this, it would also be an aggressive move by the Department of Justice to do this,
If this was just set up as 'I'll pay you to register to vote,' that would be illegal,
There is certainly an argument that this falls within the scope of a federal prohibition on paying a person to vote or register to vote,
I think signing the petition is irrelevant to the legal question because you must be a registered voter. It doesn’t matter if you add other conditions,
The mere fact that there might be an incentive doesn’t arise to a payment for a particular activity,
Well, I think that’s what you do when you have no plan for the public,
When you have no economic plan that’s going to benefit the middle class, when you have no plan to protect reproductive rights, when you have no plan to address climate change and produce American energy – you go to these types of tactics,
I’ll let the lawyers decide.”
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