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To: pgyanke

GOTV has always been a numbers game. The party that gets more of its registered voters out to vote (or, these days, to turn in their completed ballots) wins, particularly if they can get some independents as well. It’s about canvassing and phone banking. That may or may not be considered “the will of the people”— the will of the people is generally to be lazy and not vote, and it takes nudging by volunteers who care more to get them to vote.


61 posted on 12/08/2022 7:26:59 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: olivia3boys

You miss the point.

Elections are about get out the vote (GOTV) efforts, yes. One side or the other should motivate their base to do what must be done for the accomplishment of their political priorities.

What we have now goes beyond that... and Sean Hannity thinks we should double-down.

With ballot-harvesting and the tactics employed by the Democrats, we would have to beat them to the nursing homes, homeless shelters, cemeteries and other places where the disaffected don’t have an interest in politics to “harvest” their ballots for our numbers—don’t think it doesn’t happen. If we’re going to try to beat the Democrats at their game rather than rooting out the fraud in our system, elections will no longer be the people expressing their will, they will be cycles for the party machines to outcompete each other in a game of numbers that no longer respects the priorities of the people.


118 posted on 12/08/2022 1:02:20 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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