Is Musk’s $1 Million a Day Election Giveaway Legal?: QuickTake

Elon Musk’s super political action committee, America PAC, is awarding a daily prize of $1 million to a registered voter in a swing state, the latest effort by the world’s richest person to help get Donald Trump back in the White House. Photographs of Musk handing winners over-sized checks adds yet another plot twist to the US presidential race between the Republican former president and his opponent, Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, which is already among the most dramatic in the country’s history.

Elon Musk awards a $1 million check during a town hall event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 20.

Photographer: Michael Swensen/Getty Images

How does Elon Musk’s giveaway work?

Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC ...