They're paying people to collect signatures... not for the signatures themselves. This is specifically allowed in most (all?) states for organizations to be able to pay people a wage to spend the time collecting signatures for ballot initiatives. Most states require the person collecting signatures to be registered with the state if they are being paid however. So unless they're doing that and sponsoring and registering every person collecting these signatures with the State, they are likely still violating the law there. Volunteer unpaid circulators don't have to be registered, but if you're getting paid for it, you're probably required to be registered to an organization that's responsible for what you do.

Note: This is usually done via a standard hourly wage, or a price per sheet of good signatures. Many sigs (I've seen 1/3 to 1/2) are thrown out because the requirements are extremely strict for processing. A good signature or sheet of signatures can be completely invalidated by an error made by the person collecting it, or because it's on a page with the wrong county listed (even though every signature line also requires an address to verify). Simple errors unrelated to signatures get entire pages thrown out.

Source: Was trained and registered as a paid petition circulator with the State of Arizona earlier this year.

Oh it is. It’s just that Trump is doing SO much illegal shit, he’s overloading our system of law to the point where it can’t keep up anymore.

He won’t live long enough for our system to prosecute him for everything- so he’s going for broke.

They'll fix it retroactively once they get to power

Southern states have had their judiciary replaced with incompetents and yes-men. Regulatory agencies in many states are entirely broken.

Weeeeellllllllll does your bank account have seemingly 10000 lifetimes worth of money? That'll tell you if it's legal or not for you to do it.

Assuming Elon actually pays, sure.

Totally unrelated fun fact: Twitter HQ moved because Elon refused to pay rent and got evicted.

Not sure it breaks any laws, but I love how they show how slow the process would be. The election would be over before any of it mattered, and if Trump won, it's federal so he could pardon any of it.

See below. It would take minimum 50 days just to start the process... Which isn't even anything but letters at that point.

"Notice to respondents Within five days after receiving a proper complaint, OGC sends each respondent a copy of the complaint and a description of the Commission's compliance procedures. The respondent has 15 days from the date of receipt to respond in writing, explaining why no action should be taken. In the case of a complaint that does not satisfy the requirements, the respondent nevertheless receives a copy of the complaint and an explanation that the complainant has 15 days to correct the complaint. If the complainant corrects and refiles the complaint, the respondent is sent a copy of the corrected complaint and is given 15 days to submit a response to the Commission."

At best you’ll get a lifelong avalanche of mental illness-inducing spam to your mailbox, phone, text, and email.

At worst you’ll get money taken from your bank account without your knowledge. I wouldn’t trust anything that has to do with Trump with your bank account info, even as a joke.

Conservatives are passionate about "free speech" because "free speech" is much more politically viable than "calling people slurs".

My friend, Elon is not fighting for free speech. It's not just him, but because he owns that company, it looks extra bad when he shows his own hypocrisy. Many Washington Democrats and Republicans wish they could censor anyone they disagree with. They only pretend to support the First Amendment when it's something that backs their agenda.

Also, for someone like him, being hypocritical is a virtue. He's signaling to potential allies that he's willing to ignore the rules if they would inconvenience him and his friends.

Yeah I wonder.

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Every eligible voter in those states signing would be ~2 billion from some rough estimates.

Would be funny, but I won't get my hopes up on him paying out anything on that.

You actually believe he has any intention of paying anyone?

His record of not paying bills makes that unlikely

Yes, but they don't have to be red voters

They couldn't find me :(

American elections are not actually elections, they are private decisions made by Party Committees and votes are just a suggestion by the “constituents”.

Each party privately selects their own candidate to run, independent of the voters’ will, and then the actual “government” election run by the government is where those privately selected agents get to duke it out in public.

As always, liberal accusations of “authoritarian” socialist states are just another confession. The DNC plays this game the same way the RNC does.

What other logical explanation is there for the lack of universal public healthcare, education, social safety net, Roe v Wade not being codified into law, PATRIOT act, Glass Steagall repeal, 2008 bank bailout, SLABS imploding the economy, illegitimate Supreme Court, RBG and Pelosi holding onto power until they are literal corpses, 6 million dead civilians in the Middle East, 200,000 dead Palestinians, women’s and LGBT rights being stripped away with literally zero federal pushback, committing state sponsored terrorism on Cuba for a century, the list goes on forever.

All done with wholehearted and enthusiastic DNC complicity.

America