That seems pretty illegal but lol nothing matters so whatever I guess.
It seems legal if there are no strings are attached, but if it’s illegal then it’s probably also a crime to accept the voucher.
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IANAL, but put me on the “this seems like vote-buying to me” side.
I feel like there’s got to be some legal limit of what they can hand out otherwise it’s pretty obviously a wink wink nod nod thing, but who knows? With the Supreme Court saying anything short of explicitly saying the words quid pro quo isn’t one, they’d probably rule that this is just community outreach.
How much of our election will just turn into billionaires doing the equivalent of what I saw in Argentina with trucks full of bags of rice and the candidate’s logo driving through the slums handing out to whomever asked? Swap out the candidate’s logo with a PAC logo and hard to tell how it’d be different
It’s legal to give stuff away. It’s just not legal to make voting (or not voting) a condition.
Places have tried to have discounts to reward voters on election day, only to be told it’s illegal. The normal remedy was to offer the discount to everyone, not just voters.
This is nothing new. Political machines built up support by giving out financial aid to vulnerable groups, such as immigrants.
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If Republicans start giving away good health care, sign me up.
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It’s only vote buying is liberals do it the end.
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THAT’S SOCIALISM!
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Huh. If this is true then Q must be.
What did he expect them to say in response? “Uh, yeah, we are committing felonies, don’t tell anyone.” So stupid.
Except the direction of the laser is wrong. Therefore if Q says q, it must be the case that q is false while p, the looking-glass version of q, is true. Or something like that.
Can’t give water to voters forced to wait in line for 8 hours to cast a ballot but giving them free gas directly provided by a political campaign of a specific candidate is perfectly acceptable.
Makes total sense.
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People used to get whiskey and food at the pools. I think the secret ballot (aka Australian ballot) wasn’t widely adopted untill the late 1800s. Just making America great again.
From wiki:
Before the final years of the 19th century, partisan newspapers printed filled-out ballots which party workers distributed on election day so voters could drop them directly into the boxes. Individual states moved to secret ballots soon after the presidential election of 1884, finishing with Kentucky in 1891 when it quit using an oral ballot.
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States is a good book about this. Getting the secret ballot enacted was a haphazard process with a lot of opposition from the lower classes who were upset that liberal do-gooders wanted to take away a not insignificant payday for them on election day.
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My analysis: “Ponies, frankly.”
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Not exactly a photo finish.
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lol me because I was like this 
after reading this tweet.