Tag: 2024 Election

Elon Musk Settles 2024 Class Action Suit for an Allegedly Fixed $1M ‘Lottery’ Scheme. A Notably Less Flashy Musk Has Spent $276M in 2026.

Elon Musk Settles 2024 Class Action Suit for an Allegedly Fixed $1M ‘Lottery’ Scheme. A Notably Less Flashy Musk Has Spent $276M in 2026.

According to multiple reports, Elon Musk is settling two class action lawsuits against him for telling voters who gave their personal information to his America PAC they were entered into a lottery for one of several $1 million dollar payouts. It turned out to not be a random drawing. The setback has not stopped Musk’s spending for the 2026 midterms.

Americans Like Voting Early, and Other Lessons from the 2024 Election U.S. Election Assistance Commission Follow Up Report

Americans really like voting by mail and in-person early voting.  That according to 2024 statistics from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Among the 158 million voters, 52.8 million voted in person on election day. But far more Americans voted early, with 46.8 million voting early by mail, and almost 48.9 million voting early in person.

North Carolina: Former Election Directors Weigh In On Unresolved Supreme Court Race; Former Justice Argues Partisan Gerrymandering Akin to ‘Stuffing the Ballot Box’

In a brief to the North Carolina Court of Appeals, a bipartisan group of former county election directors urged the court to reject a claim that as many as 65,000 voters were ineligible last November.  And a former state supreme court justice is arguing in another appeals case that gerrymandering by the state legislature is akin to ‘stuffing the ballot box.”