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Elon Musk has sued a Grand Rapids-area attorney for more than  million in voter awards
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Elon Musk has sued a Grand Rapids-area attorney for more than $1 million in voter awards

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A Grand Rapids-area attorney has filed a federal lawsuit against billionaire Elon Musk over his $1 million daily donation to voters.

Musk, the founder of Tesla and Space X, offered to give away $1 million a day in a lottery in the days leading up to the Nov. 5 general election. Participants had to sign his political action committee’s petition supporting the Constitution, the Associated Press reported.

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America PAC’s director, however, testified in Pennsylvania that those receiving the awards had “values ​​(that) align” with the PAC, while a lawyer for billionaire Musk, a strong supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, said the recipients had were not chosen at random, AP said.

The judge allowed Musk’s contest to continue.

Robert Alvarez, an attorney with Avanti Law Group in Wyoming, Michigan, filed the lawsuit Nov. 5 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.

“Elon Musk and his organization, America PAC, fraudulently induced Alvarez and tens of thousands of Michigan residents to sign up for a chance to win $1 million through their online petition through the America PAC website ,” Alvarez wrote in the filing.

He said those associated with Musk or his PAC testified in the Pennsylvania case the winners were not chosen at random. Rather, they were paid to serve as spokespeople for the PAC supporting President-elect Donald Trump in his race against Vice President Kamala Harris.

“The intent was to avoid providing funds to someone with bad intent (meaning someone not aligned with Musk and the PAC’s political views and leanings),” Alvarez said.

He said Musk said in mid-October that $1 million would be given daily to registered voters in swing states like Michigan. Attendees had to support the First and Second Amendments and sign the PAC petition, Alvarez said. He said he met those requirements.

He signed up on an online form on October 29. He said he learned through Nov. 4 news reports about the Pennsylvania court case that the $1 million awards were not random.

“A closer look at the recipients of the $1 million prize shows a clear pattern: that the selection is not only not random, but a targeted process that eliminates anyone who is not a Republican or a vocal supporter of Donald Trump,” he wrote Alvarez.

He sued Musk and the PAC alleging fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of contract, silent fraud and civil conspiracy. He sought $1 million for breach of contract and $1 million for fraud, as well as damages for the alleged exploitation of his personal information.

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The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids.