Musk-Linked Group Offered $5 Million Bounty For Reporting Cases Of Election Fraud, Awarded Nothing

The Guardian reports:

In May 2024, a flashy ad went viral on social media warning that “across the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the [election] system that have eroded our trust”. The ad pledged that “whistleblowers” who shared evidence of election fraud “will be rewarded with payment from our $5m fund”. This reward was courtesy of a just-announced group, the Fair Election Fund, which has deep connections to Elon Musk.

The Fair Election Fund pledged that “the bulk of the group’s budget will be devoted to paying whistleblowers” for sharing their stories, and that it would launch “aggressive paid and earned media campaigns” that would “highlight these cases”. Despite the group’s high-profile, deep-pocketed backers and lucrative bounty offers, it never revealed any evidence of voter or election fraud.

Read the full article. There’s much more to this deep dive, including about the millions the group took in only to later go silent. The ad below has 3.8 million views at this writing.

🚨 If you are an election worker, organizer, or concerned citizen who has seen corruption in our elections firsthand, we want to hear your story.

Those who report fraud or abuse are eligible for payment from our $5 million fund. pic.twitter.com/JBKdj8uzbp

— Fair Election Fund (@FairElectFund) May 4, 2024