For all his bluster about voter fraud, Elon Musk has been probably the most flagrant flaunters of US election regulation. Now his America PAC has been slapped with a reprimand by the Georgia State Election Board for sending out pre-filled absentee poll functions. State regulation prohibits anybody, aside from a certified relative, from sending an absentee poll software prefilled with the elector’s data.
Residents of Chattooga, Cherokee, Coweta, Floyd, and Whitfield counties reported receiving absentee poll functions from America PAC, partially pre-filled. In line with the State Election Board, the functions additionally failed to notice that they weren’t precise ballots and weren’t supplied by the federal government, as is required by regulation.
On the State Election Board assembly on February 18th, the panel shortly handed down the reprimand. America PAC didn’t seem to ship a consultant or submit an announcement in protection of its actions.
That is simply the most recent instance of Musk testing the boundaries of election regulation after he repeatedly prompt paying folks to signal a petition and register to vote in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and different swing states. It’s additionally one other incident by which those that declare to be most involved about election integrity have been caught doubtlessly violating the regulation.