Billionaire Elon Musk has increased his financial offer to registered voters in swing states to sign a conservative-leaning petition. On Thursday, Musk wrote on X that his pro-Trump super PAC would give $100 to signers and those who recommend them.

After Musk advanced a debunked conspiracy theory about election fraud Thursday night at a pro-Trump public event in Pennsylvania, he announced in a post that he was doubling down on his financial offer to engage in the petition, which had been set at $47. He said the deadline to sign the petition was Monday evening, the closing day for voter registration in Pennsylvania.

“If you are a registered voter in Pennsylvania, you and anyone who recommended you will now receive $100 for signing our petition in support of free speech and the right to bear arms,” Musk wrote.

Musk initially launched the petition and referral offer in early October. His America PAC published the petition, which supports the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution. For anyone recommending that a registered voter in a swing state sign it, Musk promised to send a check in the mail. For the current offering, he said checks would be mailed to voters’ addresses on file in Pennsylvania.

The program appears to avoid violating campaign finance laws, which prohibit paying people to register to vote, because the payment is used to sign the petition and incentivize registered voters to sign the petition, rather than registering.

However, Musk, the world’s richest person, strongly urged voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania to vote for former President Donald Trump, saying on Thursday that the 2024 election would decide the “fate of America” and the “fate of Western civilization”.

Previously vowed to remain apolitical, Musk has shifted heavily toward supporting conservatives since taking over X, formerly Twitter. Over the summer, he supported Trump and increased his support for the candidate. Recent revelations show that Musk donated $75 million to his own pro-Trump super PAC.

Musk also joined Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania and plans to continue holding town halls in the state, which he says is the “keystone” of the election, through Monday.

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Musk’s America PAC also paid to run ads on Facebook and Instagram for voter registration in swing states. In August, the PAC collected voter data but only directed certain ZIP codes to an official means of voter registration, a move that sparked significant controversy. Election officials in Michigan and North Carolina investigated whether the website misled voters, but Michigan said they found no evidence of violations of state campaign finance law. State.