Elon Musk’s $1m-a-day voter sweepstakes can proceed: Pennsylvania judge

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The $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes that Elon Musk’s political action committee is hosting in swing states can continue through today’s presidential election, a Pennsylvania judge has ruled, the Associated Press reports.

Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta — ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are paid spokespeople and not chosen by chance — did not immediately explain his reasoning.

District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, had called the process a scam “designed to actually influence a national election” and asked that it be shut down.

Musk lawyer Chris Gober said the final two recipients before Tuesday’s presidential election will be in Arizona and Michigan. “The $1 million recipients are not chosen by chance,” Gober said.

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