Elon Musk lawyer says US$1 million voter giveaway winners are not random
By Jack Queen, Reuters
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk awarded Kristine Fishell with a US$1 million check.
Photo: AFP / Getty Images / Michael Swensen
Elon Musk's pro-Trump group does not choose the winners of its US$1 million-a-day (NZ$1.7m) giveaway to registered voters at random, but instead picks people who would be good spokespeople for its agenda, a lawyer for the billionaire said.
Musk lawyer Chris Gober was trying to persuade a Pennsylvania judge that the giveaway was not an "illegal lottery," as Philadelphia district attorney Lawrence Krasner alleged in a lawsuit seeking to block the contest ahead of Wednesday's US presidential election.
"There is no prize to be won, instead recipients must fulfil contractual obligations to serve as a spokesperson for the PAC," Gober said...










