• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    Wisconsin state bribery statute. I’m not seeing any wiggle room here. Someone should check this judge’s finances.

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      Yeah that’s really clear. You cannot pay $1 or more to make someone go vote regardless of who it’s for.

      Honestly I expected a requirement of it being for a specific candidate, it nope, you cannot pay someone to vote. Except he’s going to and nothing will happen because the American laws mean absolutely nothing.

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        He’s in the class of people protected by the law but not bound by it, and we’re in the class of people bound by the law but not protected by it.

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        It is a violation of the statute to even offer to pay someone to vote or not vote. He doesn’t even need to actually pay them.

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        I think you meant American laws mean nothing once you’ve achieved a high enough level of wealth… the rest of us out here certainly get punished for violations.

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      At this level it doesn’t even have to be a bribe. I’m sure the judge is aware of stochastic terrorism. They may just want to continue living and be genuinely afraid of what sort of mob twitter could reign down on them.