Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, appears to be encouraging voter fraud on X – National

Maye Musk, the mother of billionaire

“The Democrats have given us another option. You do not need to register to vote. On election day you have to have ten fake names, go to ten polling booths and vote ten times,” she wrote on Saturday on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.

“That’s 100 votes, and it’s not illegal. Maybe we should also start working with the system.”

Users of the platform added a community note to the post, with a link to the federal code on the US House of Representatives website that prohibits voting more than once and falsifying information while voting.

“This is in fact illegal,” the fact check reads. Falsifying information and voting multiple times are both punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 and a prison term of up to five years.

“Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of an investigator or hearing officer, knowingly falsifies or conceals any material fact, or makes false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes any false writing or document or used with knowledge to contain a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or submission, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both,” the law states.

However, three hours later, Maye appeared to walk back her post, telling her followers to “ignore” it.

“In Butler, Pennsylvania, we just heard that Republicans will stop illegals from voting,” she said. “Ignore my previous message.”

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And on Sunday she also tried to dismiss her suggestions as “sarcasm.”

Her comments come the same weekend her son, who has endorsed Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 US presidential election, joined the former president on stage at a rally in Pennsylvania.

“As you can see, I’m not just MAGA – I’m Dark MAGA,” Elon told the crowd, wearing a black version of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign hat.

It was the first time he had attended one of Trump’s rallies and was a testament to their growing alliance in the latter part of the presidential election. The billionaire has created a super political action committee in support of the Republican candidate and has spent a lot of money trying to win the vote. Trump has said he would tap Musk to head a government efficiency commission if he regains the White House.

Before a large crowd on Saturday, Elon tried to portray Trump as a champion of free speech, arguing that Democrats “want to take away your freedom of speech, they want to take away your right to bear arms, they want to take away your right to freedom take away’. effective voting.” He then criticized an effort in California to ban voter ID requirements.

The event took place on the same property where a gunman’s bullets grazed Trump’s right ear and killed a Trump supporter, Corey Comperatore. The shooting injured several others.

— With files from The Associated Press

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