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Having read up on the article about musk doing this, he's not restricting it to people who are going to vote for a specific party which is the thing I take issue with.
Nothing wrong with paying people to vote in general, paying people only if they are going to vote the way you want them to sucks
It's literally illegal.
Note the "in general" part (paying them to vote in the way they want to)
Note that it's still illegal to pay someone to vote, full stop. Does not matter if you're not telling them specifically who to vote for.
I didn't say anything about legality, that is my opinion
Then it's odd that you only mention that after I point it out.
Literally at no point in any of this comment chain have I mentioned legality
No, I did, and then you tried to correct me, and then realized you were still wrong so you pivoted to this.
Regardless, the federal government disagrees heavily with your assessment that it's fine to pay someone to vote. Hence why that's not what's actually happening here.