NC AG Launches Probe Into Musk’s Deceptive PAC

CNBC reports:

The North Carolina Attorney General’s Office said Monday that it is eyeing a political action committee created by billionaire Elon Musk following a complaint to the state election board over the PAC’s collection of personal data while failing to help users register to vote as promised.

The North Carolina Board of Elections later Monday told CNBC that it has opened an investigation of Musk’s America PAC. The new inquiries and a similar one announced Sunday by Michigan’s secretary of state’s office.

“North Carolina law makes it a crime for someone to fail to submit a voter’s registration form if that person has told a voter that they would be submitting the voter’s registration form,” the board’s spokesman, Patrick Gannon, told CNBC.

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NEW: The pro-Trump Elon Musk PAC is being looked into by the office of North Carolina AG @JoshStein_ after the PAC collected data through a “register to vote” link on their website, only for people in that state to not be able to register to vote. https://t.co/DtmyARWUA7

— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) August 5, 2024