Tech mogul Elon Musk has agreed to settle two lawsuits over his $1 million check giveaways to battleground-state voters during the 2024 election, according to court filings made public Thursday.
The lawsuits, filed in the Western District of Texas, accused the Tesla and SpaceX CEO of defrauding voters through his America PAC, which offered a $1 million prize to a swing-state voter every day in the lead-up to the 2024 general election.
Musk first announced the pledge in Pennsylvania in October 2024. He later extended similar offers to voters in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and North Carolina.
At the time, Musk explained the arrangement to a recipient he personally selected from the audience.
“The only thing we ask for the million dollars is that you be a spokesperson for the petition,” Musk said.
The lawsuits claimed that voters were misled when they signed the petition and were told that recipients would be selected at “random,” like a lottery. However, Musk told a Philadelphia judge that winners were not picked at random, but instead chosen to serve as paid “spokespeople for the group.”
Musk was ordered in June to testify under oath, but he had not yet done so when the settlements were reached. The terms of the settlements were not included in the public filings.
The Pennsylvania-launched program was not the only time Musk offered $1 million checks to voters.
During Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election last year, Musk made a separate pledge. In March 2025, he announced he would speak in the state and said entry would be limited to those who had voted in the Supreme Court race.
In a post on X, Musk said he would “personally hand over two checks for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote.”
Roughly 12 hours later, that post was deleted and replaced with a new one. The updated post clarified that entry was limited to those who had signed a petition against “activist judges.” Musk said the money would go to “spokesmen” for the petition, and he went on to hand out two checks at a campaign rally in Wisconsin.
In August, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, District Attorney Tim Gruenke, a Democrat, announced that his office would not bring charges over the giveaways. Gruenke concluded that, in the end, “nobody was paid anything of value for voting or promising to vote.”
Despite Musk’s involvement, the conservative candidate he supported in the Wisconsin race, Brad Schimel, lost to Democratic-backed Susan Crawford. The outcome preserved the liberal majority on the state’s high court.
Musk has not made similar $1 million pledges during the current election cycle.
Even so, he remains a major player in politics. The SpaceX CEO is shaping up to be the largest known Republican donor of the 2026 midterm elections.
The settlements bring an end to the two Texas lawsuits stemming from the 2024 giveaways, though the specific terms agreed to by Musk and the plaintiffs have not been made public.
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