1. United States
2. Iowa
3. Letter

How Much Is One Vote Worth When One Man Spends $291 Million? I am asking you to take concrete action against the unchecked flow of billionaire money into our elections, before it becomes the norm rather than the exception. Federal Election Commission filings confirm Elon Musk spent more than $291 million supporting Republican candidates and outside groups in the 2024 cycle, making him the largest political donor in American history. That spending has since translated into tactics that election officials call illegal. In April 2025, Musk personally handed Wisconsin voters two $1 million checks ahead of a state Supreme Court race; the state's bipartisan Elections Commission later voted 5-1 finding probable cause that he violated Wisconsin's election-bribery statute, and a civil lawsuit over the scheme is still pending in Brown County court. In Georgia, the State Election Board issued a formal reprimand in February 2026 after finding America PAC sent voters in five counties absentee ballot applications prefilled in violation of state law. And in Germany, government officials accused Musk of trying to sway that country's February 2025 election through his public endorsement of the far-right AfD party. This isn't a partisan complaint. Wisconsin's board is bipartisan, and even conservative German leader Friedrich Merz called Musk's intervention "intrusive and pretentious." I vote once, same as everyone else on my street. When one person's spending can dwarf an entire state's election budget, that equality starts to feel theoretical rather than real, and I worry my ballot is being outbid before I even cast it. I am asking you to: Support the Abolish Super PACs Act (Sen. Sanders and Rep. Lee, introduced May 20, 2026), which would cap individual super PAC contributions at $5,000. Support the SHINE Act (Rep. Crow and Rep. DeLuzio, introduced June 2026), closing the pop-up PAC disclosure loophole. Push for congressional oversight of the pattern emerging across Wisconsin and Georgia. My vote is worth exactly what everyone else's is — one, no more — and it shouldn't be diluted by one man's checkbook. Thank you for considering this.