Green Bay leftists were forced to cancel a get-out-the-vote drive with big cash prizes after Brown County District Attorney David Lasee informed them that election bribery is still against the law in Wisconsin.
The initiative, which offered “social media influencers” a top prize of $1,000 to turn voters out to last Tuesday’s Wisconsin spring elections, is the latest example of what leftist groups will do to get Democrat voters to the polls, a Green Bay-area lawmaker tells The Federalist.
United Front for Change promoted its Get Out The Vote Campaign on the social media accounts of its network of left-wing activists. Beyond monetary prizes for the top five social media influencers, the GOTV effort offered free food and beverages and a “FREE Open Bar.”
That all appears to be illegal under the Wisconsin statute that frowns on election bribery.
“I have significant concerns about this event, but more particularly the social media influencer competition as it may run afoul of Section 12.11 of the Wisconsin Statutes which prohibits ‘election bribery’,” Lasee wrote in a letter to the executive directors of the groups that make up United Front for Change: We All Rise: African American Resource Center, Casa ALBA Melanie, and COMSA, as well as 9 to 5 Wisconsin.
“Therefore, I would strongly encourage that whomever may be responsible for the social media competition immediately discontinue that activity,” Lasee continued. “Further, to the extent that you intend to hold the event, which publicizes free food, drinks, and rides to the polls,
