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Ballot Harvesting
Spectator ^ | 2023-11-18 | Christopher Bedford

Posted on 11/18/2022 5:05:33 AM PST by oldskoolwargamer2

allot harvesting.” To some, it’s a creepy term, conjuring images of hulking party machines plowing through passive fields of citizens, threshing their votes and delivering them to the ballot box. To others, the whole thing seems practically a conspiracy theory — a catch-all for sore losers who can’t understand how voters could have rejected their team.

Feelings aside, ballot harvesting is a reality for much of the country. In twenty-seven states, your ballot can be returned by someone other than you, your family member or your caregiver. Further, only twelve of those twenty-seven have any limit at all on the number of ballots a person can turn in, meaning an eager harvester can show up with dozens or hundreds of ballots.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectatorworld.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: ballot; ballotharvesting; ballottrafficking; election; harvesting; integrity; votefraud
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This should be required reading for the GOP leadership, all GOP candidates, campaign managers, and field operatives going forward. Like it or not ballot harvesting is not going away anytime soon and we need to compete on this playing field. The first step in making policy is to win elections. Ballot harvesting is dirty and distasteful but it needs to be done.
1 posted on 11/18/2022 5:05:33 AM PST by oldskoolwargamer2
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btt


2 posted on 11/18/2022 5:07:22 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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Oh? Sort of, ‘if ya can’t fight them, join them’, huh?

one helluva way to run a country!!!!

3 posted on 11/18/2022 5:12:12 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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A democrat strategist flat out admitted how mail in voting pads democrat voting totals without outright fraud. Basically, imagine super liberal mom. Mom is a diehard democrat and lives and breathes politics. She has a husband and two college age kids. Neither of them are politically engaged in the least and would never even bother to vote. So up until mail in voting became a thing, mom cast her vote for democrats and nobody else in the household voted. But now, not only moms ballot come in the mail, but her husband and two kid's ballots do too. She of course fills out all four, voting straight democrat and sends all four-back in.

Now what she is doing may be technically illegal, but there is zero chance to ever prove it. Dad and kids might not really care, but they would certainly claim they voted if ever asked so mom wouldn't get in trouble. So now one democrat vote has suddenly become four democrat votes. Now multiply that by 100,000 in that state and democrats have suddenly gained 300,000 votes they wouldn't have had before.

4 posted on 11/18/2022 5:14:33 AM PST by apillar
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It will go away if republicans master the practice. The more republicans do it and win from it, the more democrats will come to hate it. Of course, not without first a lot of complaining, hand wringing, arrests and congressional investigations by democrats. And lots of whining and “threat-to-democracy” hand wringing by their friendly media too. Some other tactic will be found.


5 posted on 11/18/2022 5:16:02 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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Oh? Sort of, ‘if ya can’t fight them, join them’, huh?

Learn it. Love it. Live it.

6 posted on 11/18/2022 5:16:06 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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Ballot harvesting was fraud, is fraud and will always be fraud.

Make it illegal.


7 posted on 11/18/2022 5:16:13 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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Rules get changed, can’t play by the rules you wont be able to change them.


8 posted on 11/18/2022 5:16:44 AM PST by Bayard
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cut it off at the source. Mail-in ballots need to be curtailed. Since Covid, mail-in ballots are being mailed out to almost everyone. This needs to stop. Mail-in ballots should only be available to those with extenuating circumstances.


9 posted on 11/18/2022 5:18:11 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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The California GOP figured this out quickly after 2008. Why the rest of the country’s GOP hasn’t gotten in board is baffling.


10 posted on 11/18/2022 5:19:28 AM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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How about the unionized caregiver at a large nursing facility? Offers to help a few of the “less aware” residents fill out their mail in ballots, presto, a big stack of Dem votes. Probably not significant in the strongholds for either side but enough maybe to tip some elections in the purple states.


11 posted on 11/18/2022 5:19:42 AM PST by oldskoolwargamer2
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*2018


12 posted on 11/18/2022 5:19:53 AM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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First you have to get them to care!


13 posted on 11/18/2022 5:20:32 AM PST by 100%FEDUP
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Agree it is dirty, distasteful, and probably borderline illegal but as the article points out it is not going anywhere.

I would not advocate illegal practices but if it’s legal you can’t concede these types of votes and win close elections.


14 posted on 11/18/2022 5:21:05 AM PST by oldskoolwargamer2
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Make it illegal.

You need to win elections first.

15 posted on 11/18/2022 5:21:41 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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OK, what’s the first step to making it illegal? Winning elections in the states where it is legal. Now how do you go about doing that?


16 posted on 11/18/2022 5:21:58 AM PST by oldskoolwargamer2
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We had the most perfect elections. How did they get so bastardized?

It’s depressing.


17 posted on 11/18/2022 5:22:24 AM PST by nikos1121
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This should be required reading for the GOP leadership, all GOP candidates, campaign managers, and field operatives going forward.

Too late. GOP'er management just invested in new rolls of "Just Voted" stickers to be worn on gameday. They still think it's 1973


18 posted on 11/18/2022 5:22:38 AM PST by JonPreston
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19 posted on 11/18/2022 5:23:57 AM PST by Liz
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We need to stop BALLOT PLANTING!.......................


20 posted on 11/18/2022 5:24:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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