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Conservatives, Get Busy Ballot Harvesting Or Get Busy Losing
Federalist ^ | MAY 09, 2023 | EOIN LENIHAN

Posted on 05/11/2023 5:32:54 PM PDT by conservative98

Biden has announced he will seek reelection as president. This comes as he is experiencing the lowest approval ratings of his presidency — 37 percent, according to Gallup. Former President Donald Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will almost certainly be the GOP nominee. The blunt reality, however, is that regardless of who the GOP puts up against Biden, they will lose if the party isn’t prepared to get down in the mud and beat the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at their own dirty game: ballot harvesting.

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Door-to-Door Efforts

Conservative super PACs need to spend money putting boots on the ground in battleground states. This isn’t like the good old days when the pastor or local pillar of the community drove the elderly to the polls out of his love for democracy and pride in the right to vote. Sure, do that, but PACs need to pay professional, persuasive, and well-trained individuals to go door-to-door to harvest as many ballots as legally allowed.

Laws vary from state to state. In Pennsylvania, for example, those qualifying for an absentee ballot must authorize in writing a representative to return their ballots if they don’t do it themselves. In Arizona, a designated caretaker can return absentee ballots. Therefore, in reliably red areas in these states, there needs to be a designated RNC outreach representative in every care facility, hospice, hospital, and retirement home who is registered to return ballots. An obvious solution to finding individuals to go door-to-door to register first-time voters, sway independents, and ensure strong youth turnout — only 50 percent in 2020 — is to recruit college RNC members. Weaponized local election office staff need to coordinate doorstep ballot curing and signature witnessing on absentee ballots.

While there are useful legislative steps being taken at the party level to ensure election integrity for future elections, the reality is that if the RNC wants to be competitive in 2024, it needs to get busy harvesting or get busy losing.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; 2024election; ballotharvesting; elections; eoinlenihan; getbusy; trump; whateverittakes
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To: DoodleBob

Yes mail in voting needs to be stopped.


41 posted on 05/11/2023 10:20:45 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Mail in voting is needed for military personnel and families stationed overseas.


42 posted on 05/11/2023 10:25:26 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: taxcontrol

That would be great but laws need to be changed to eliminate universal mail in voting and you can’t change laws unless you win elections first and that requires ballot harvesting


43 posted on 05/11/2023 10:37:34 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Arkady

How do you restore election integrity without winning elections first, especially since winning elections requires ballot harvesting


44 posted on 05/11/2023 10:39:16 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

How do you accomplish that without winning elections first ??


45 posted on 05/11/2023 10:41:49 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: conservative98

Exactly right, we waste time on who will be on top of the tix, it doesn’t matter unless we beat the Lefties at their game of VBM where they have a month or more to vote and round up votes and we mainly vote on 1 day.


46 posted on 05/12/2023 2:06:43 AM PDT by TECTopcat
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To: taxcontrol

But trump gave us mail in ballots so they are terrific.


47 posted on 05/12/2023 2:29:13 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: conservative98

Timely advice in this article. Our marching orders should be, “Do all of the above now provided it’s legal.” It would be nice if there were no mail in ballots, lax ID rules, etc, but just complaining about it is counter productive. We must do what’s essential now in order to fix what’s essential in the future.


48 posted on 05/12/2023 4:38:12 AM PDT by Don@VB (THE NEW GREEN DEAL IS JUST THE OLD RED DEAL)
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To: gitmo

Yes but not for every tom dick and harry which is what we have now.


49 posted on 05/12/2023 6:42:59 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: conservative98

This is a head fake to make you stop thinking about the fact that the 2020 election must be fixed before 2024. Ballot harvesting is just one of the many ways the Dems cheat.

Trying to out ballot harvest the Dems is a losing strategy. Yes I know Trump says to do it but Trump many times has reasons for what he says that are not immediately known.


50 posted on 05/12/2023 7:54:45 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: oldbill

The dims now have a couple of million new voters who will vote early and often.


51 posted on 05/12/2023 9:48:03 AM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: momincombatboots

Trump did not give us mail in ballots.


52 posted on 05/12/2023 2:57:48 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

In I 1064-2013 I went door-to-door urging people to vote for my candidate. We would discuss the issues, the candidates, the Bears and Bulls and economy. I would go to meetings and do the same. I would do this year round, not just final election weekend.

The alternatives?
Masssive JUNK MAIL

Unbelievable stories in the media

massive ads on TV

Unbelievable stores on TV.

Social media like FR, Twitterk, FB, TicTok.

How is one more or less electioneering than the other?


53 posted on 05/13/2023 2:43:39 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h g)
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