• A lawsuit filed by the Philadelphia DA could end Elon Musk’s million-dollar-a-day giveaway to voters as early as Friday.
• By then, he may have distributed $14 million and generated tens of thousands of pro-Trump voter registrations.
• Musk used the lottery to encourage voter registration and push opposition supporters to the polls.

The Philadelphia district attorney will take Elon Musk’s America PAC to court Friday morning in an effort to stop a $1 million daily giveaway that the prosecutor called an “illegal lottery” in a lawsuit filed Monday .

“If not banned, their lottery system and unfair and deceptive conduct will irreparably harm Philadelphians (and others in Pennsylvania) and tarnish the public’s right to free and fair elections,” the lawsuit said on Monday, filed by prosecutor Larry Krasner.

Krasner’s lawyers quickly secured a court date Friday to demand that Musk and his PAC be “restrained and enjoined from promoting, maintaining or operating their lottery,” according to the court schedule and a draft injunction filed a complaint.

Krasner hopes to stop Musk from offering a daily chance to win $1 million by signing a petition supporting the Constitution and the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

The competition, which began on October 19, has two takes. Participants must reside in one of seven swing states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin or North Carolina. Participants must also be registered voters to apply.

Friday, a large part what the DA and Democratic critics claim the objective of the giveaway – to provide a financial incentive for swing-staters to register to vote for Donald Trump – will have been achieved. Voter registration closed in Pennsylvania a week ago.

Nevada and North Carolina are the only swing states offering voter registration next week.

But the lawsuit was widely reported when it broke Monday morning, and was followed by a flurry of posts about the lottery and Pennsylvania on the America PAC site on X. Musk founded the PAC and owns the platform formerly known under the name Twitter.

“In Pennsylvania, today and tomorrow are the last two days of on-demand voting,” the PAC posted. Also Monday, the PAC announced its 10th $1 million winner.

Musk’s representatives and lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit from Business Insider.

An America PAC spokesperson declined to comment, instead directing BI to a new post from the PAC’s X account showing a photo of “Jordan from Hastings, Michigan” holding a mock-up of a $1 million check.

The Hastings man was named the final winner hours after the lawsuit was filed.

The DA’s request for an injunction stopping the gift will be heard at 10 a.m. Friday before Judge Anne Marie B. Coyle of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, who took the bench in 2013 after running for office on a Republican ticket.

Krasner’s lawsuit claims the giveaway is an unregulated lottery that violates Pennsylvania law.

Musk and his PAC “kept key aspects of the lottery secret,” including failing to detail the rules of the contest, the odds of winning, and how winners are selected,” the lawsuit says.

Musk himself called the selection of winners “random.”

“We will award one million dollars, randomly, every day between now and the election,” the lawsuit says, citing a video from Musk’s X account.

Musk himself suggests that the purpose of the giveaway is to alert people about the election, explaining in the same video: “I asked myself, ‘How can we get people to know about this?'” the lawsuit states.

“Defendants have already illegally acquired data from more than 280,000 unsuspecting Pennsylvanians and will not suffer any harm if they are prohibited from committing further wrongdoing,” the lawsuit also states.

The offer was criticized by Democrats as a cash-for-enrollment campaign designed to help boost Trump’s numbers. Federal law prohibits paying someone to vote or register to vote.

Legal experts previously told Business Insider that the America PAC contest likely violated the spirit of the law and may have crossed the line altogether.

Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, said it would be surprising to see the Justice Department act given how little time remains before Election Day. The DOJ sent a letter to America PAC warning that the gift might be illegal, a development first reported by 24sight News. America PAC did not announce a winner Wednesday after the warning letter became public, but resumed making announcements.

Musk has become one of the most vocal pro-Republicans megadonors in the presidential race. He just finished a series of town hall meetings in Pennsylvania, the biggest swing state in the race.