Elon Musk's pledge to give away $1 million a day to voters for signing his PAC's petition is prompting questions about its legality.

Mr. Musk, a megadonor, had flummoxed some Trump advisers by previously declining to write a “super max” check directly to the former president’s campaign.

Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway for voters who sign his free-speech and gun-rights petition falls into a gray area of election law, and legal experts are divided about whether the billionaire supporter of Donald Trump could be running afoul of prohibitions on paying people to register to vote.

The social media magnate’s latest scheme – part petition, part lottery, part voter registration drive – aims to bring out Republican voters in swing states. Critics question its legality.

Legal experts are sounding off on tech billionaire Elon Musk's million-dollar giveaways to voters in Pennsylvania. Why it matters: Musk, the world's richest man, has pledged to give $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states who sign a petition launched by his pro-Trump political action committee supporting free speech and the right to own firearms.

Elon Musk's offer of a million dollars to one registered voter in a swing state every day until Election Day has raised legal questions.

The first winners of an Elon-Musk-backed organization's $1M giveaway — aimed at getting voters to cast their ballots for former President Donald Trump — were already registered as Republicans — and had already voted prior to winning the money,