A scam PAC

#AmericaPAC purports to help people register to vote.

If you live in a state that isn’t a swing state, that’s what the PAC’s website does
— sends you over to your state’s voter registration page.

But if you live somewhere in play this November, the America PAC website asks you for detailed personal information,
including things utterly unrelated to voter eligibility,
like your cellphone number.

After all that is entered, ️the PAC doesn’t register you at all. ️

It doesn’t even send the user to their state registration website.️

It just displays a “thank you” page.

So, swing state voters may think they’re registering,
but they’re not.

Instead, they’ve handed over their data to a PAC that is coordinating with the Trump campaign.

While PACs are generally not allowed to work directly with campaigns,
America PAC is a door-to-door canvassing group,
and those, inexplicably, can work hand in hand with a candidate.

However, pretending to register people to vote is probably a bridge too far.

The Michigan Secretary of State’s office is in the early stages of an investigation of the PAC.

So is the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office,
as in North Carolina, it’s an #actual #crime to say you’re submitting someone’s voter registration form and then not do so,
which is pretty close to what Musk’s PAC is doing.

️The problem here is the relative #toothlessness and extreme #slowness of American jurisprudence when it comes to election violations.️

Remember #Jacob #Wohl?

A sort of poor man’s James O’Keefe, Wohl and conservative lobbyist #Jack #Burkman placed tens of thousands of robocalls trying to intimidate Black voters into staying home during the 2020 election.

Two full years later, Wohl and Burkman pleaded guilty in Ohio,
getting probation,
an ankle monitor,
a requirement they spend 500 hours registering voters,
and a whopping $2,500 fine.

It took the Federal Communications Commission nearly three years to issue them a $5.1 million fine
and four years for New York state to get an agreement from the pair to pay $1.2 million.

None of that undoes the damage they may have caused in 2020,

and while those fines might be a bit much for Wohl and Burkman, it’s pocket change to Musk.