olivermoss | (no subject)

Elon Musk is trying to do an election interference. A new one, I mean. Not like the run of the mill suspending Dem fundraiser accounts or how I am still, somehow, magically, not following Kamala on twitter. She got follow capped and I've tried twice to follow her and nope, still not doing it.

He made and is promoting a sham voter registration website where people in battleground states are lead to believe they've registered.

"If a user lives in a state that is not considered competitive in the presidential election, like California or Wyoming for example, they’ll be prompted to enter their email addresses and ZIP code and then directed quickly to a voter registration page for their state, or back to the original sign-up section.

But for users who enter a ZIP code that indicates they live in a battleground state, like Pennsylvania or Georgia, the process is very different. Rather than be directed to their state’s voter registration page, they instead are directed to a highly detailed personal information form, prompted to enter their address, cellphone number and age. If they agree to submit all that, the system still does not steer them to a voter registration page. Instead, it shows them a “thank you” page.

So that person who wanted help registering to vote? In the end, they got no help at all registering. But they did hand over priceless personal data to a political operation." From CNBC

rahaeli has put together resources in case you want to help report him and maybe make him face legal consequences for a whole minute. Hopefully, this will also turn out to be an FEC violation