GREEN BAY, Wis. — Brown County prosecutor David Lasee has a choice: Whether to file criminal charges against billionaire Elon Musk for writing $1 million in checks to Wisconsin citizens to vote in a 2025 stare Supreme Court election. Like Musk, Lasee is a Republican. Last week the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 that Musk should be charged with vote bribery. Lasee has 40 days to decide. Musk, who has no Wisconsin roots, spent $20 million tota, mostly for advertising, on a Trump-backed candidate in what amounted to a showdown referendum on Trump. Trump’s candidate, Brad Schimel. lost by 10 percentage points.
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