I would like to see ONE Thing done about this, and it should be totally non-controversial.
ALL names of people who cast absentee ballots are known, because the names are on the envelopes.
After each election, a letter should be sent to every person whose name and address appeared on an absentee ballot, with a return postcard asking one question: Did you submit an absentee ballot.
That way, people can find out that someone is criminally taking their vote from them, and we can get some rough idea of how bad the situation is.
Maybe every postcard comes back with a “yes, I did”, in which case, ballot harvesting is simply a really good way for dedicated people to get more people to vote for their candidates, and republicans need to get on the ball.
Or maybe half the postcards don’t come back, which makes us believe the people don’t actually live at those addresses.
Or worse, half the postcards come back with “I didn’t do absentee ballots, I went and voted at my precinct, or I didn’t vote, or “I’m not even ALLOWEd to vote”.
In which case we’d finally have the evidence that there was widespread cheating, evidence we don’t have now because it is IMPOSSIBLE to collect that evidence.
Seems like they could have an actionable case to sue for disenfranchisement.
At the very least, *unequal* protection under the law.
I'd think that the Supreme Court could shut this down.