What’s happening on Tuesday is a vote for which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives,” Elon Musk told a crowd in Green Bay. “That is why it is so significant.”

Billionaire Elon Musk’s unprecedented efforts to bolster the conservative candidate in next week’s hotly contested Wisconsin Supreme Court race have run into legal hot water amid accusations that he had broken state election law.

(Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday handed out million-dollar checks to two voters in Wisconsin and promised smaller payments to others who help elect a conservative candidate to the state's top court in a closely watched election.