Maye Musk arrives on the red carpet at “The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power” New York Screening at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 in New York City. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Maye Musk, the mother of billionaire Elon Musk, seemingly prompted pro-Donald Trump voter fraud on her son’s social media platform X.
Maye Musk quoted a post from her son urging his followers to “get all your friends and family to register to vote” but encouraged them to go further. She claimed the Democrats have given them the option to take steps that amount to illegal voter fraud.
“You don’t have to register to vote,” she said in the Saturday post. “On Election Day, have 10 fake names, go to 10 polling booths and vote 10 times. That’s 100 votes, and it’s not illegal. Maybe we should work the system too.”
A note added to the post included context from readers, simply stating, “This is, in fact, illegal,” with a link to the exact text of the related voting law as listed on the U.S. House of Representatives website.
“Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of an examiner or hearing officer knowingly and willfully falsifies or conceals a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both,” the law reads.
Elon Musk appeared on stage during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania for former president Donald Trump on Saturday and had made the post that his mother commented on to encourage citizens to get registered.
Maye Musk then retracted her original comment.
“In Butler, Pennsylvania, we just heard that the Republicans will make sure no illegals vote,” she said. “Ignore my previous post.”
Trump and other members of the GOP have made unsubstantiated claims that undocumented immigrants have been allowed to vote and that those votes have turned elections.
Elon Musk portrayed Trump as a champion of free speech during the Saturday rally in Pennsylvania, where at one point he jumped up and down on the stage behind the former president at one point.
Elon Musk also criticized a California effort to outlaw voter ID requirements.
He said in 2022 when he bought Twitter, which he would rebrand as X, that the company must stay out of politics.
“For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally,” Musk, who also owns Tesla and SpaceX, announced.
Not all Republicans support Musk. Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger called the entrepreneur a “weird dork [who] is the largest contractor to the U.S. military despite his repeated conspiracies and anti-American rhetoric. We must STOP that.”
