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The GOP can never win the ballot harvesting game, so restore mail-in voting to a rare practice only when necessary by illness or absence
American Thinker ^ | 05/22/2023 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 05/22/2023 9:49:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Perhaps the most consequential political outcome of the Covid panic that was engineered is the widespread use of mail-in voting in place of actually showing up at a polling station on Election Day. On the spurious grounds that standing in line to vote would spread the virus that was lethal mainly to the infirm and elderly, our entire process of voting was upended, and made highly vulnerable to cheating.

Writing in The Federalist, Joseph Arlinghaus and William Doyle, Ph.D. argue that Republican efforts to match the Democrats’ ballot harvesting efforts are fruitless.

Democrats currently execute a ballot-harvesting game vastly more complex, sophisticated, expensive, and labor-intensive than most Republicans even remotely understand. (snip)

The Democrats’ powerful election-industrial complex consists of two types of institutions: national types devoted to election strategy and policy, and local types, including public-sector unions, devoted to fielding and deploying boots-on-the-ground election activists.   

Public-sector unions comprise a vast potential workforce to aid in solidifying the grip of Democrats on the election process in their states through the sheer manpower they can deploy for vote canvassing, voter registration, assistance in early voting, and ballot harvesting. 

Local urban-based activist organizations also contribute to the left’s army of community organizers. It is where the armies of Democrat vote canvassers and ballot harvesters come from in ArizonaGeorgiaMichiganWisconsin, et al.  (snip)

Democratic ballot harvesters are guided by sophisticated statistical models and data mining schemes devised by an army of highly skilled, Ph.D.-level data analysts. Republicans have generally disdained this technical aspect of political science and instead published think-tank papers on political philosophy or public policy, leaving the ranks of high-level Republican data analysts generally empty. 


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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ballotharvesting; elections; mailinvoting; voterfraud
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1 posted on 05/22/2023 9:49:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And just how do we “restore” the practice when we can no longer win an election due to ballot harvesting in the left?


2 posted on 05/22/2023 9:52:23 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: SeekAndFind

Once it’s established, and it has been, it cannot be taken away, else the Dems will attack the Republicans for trying to take your voting rights away.....................


3 posted on 05/22/2023 9:52:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

Too late


4 posted on 05/22/2023 9:54:29 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

GOP loses because they insist on on person one vote


5 posted on 05/22/2023 9:55:12 AM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Former Deputy National Security Advisor Claims FBI, CIA, and DOJ Will Rig 2024 Presidential Election After Successfully Rigging 2016 and 2020 Elections (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/former-deputy-national-security-advisor-claims-fbi-cia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=former-deputy-national-security-advisor-claims-fbi-cia


6 posted on 05/22/2023 9:56:12 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Democrats groom then butcher children and call it gender affirming. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The war has started, so returning to “status quo ante” is off the table.

Electoral goals should be:
- ID voting only
- No “drive-up registration”
- Voter registration closes 2 weeks prior to election
- No mail in ballots unless requested 1 month before election and rec’d before election day
- Voter rolls purged every 10 years with census. Must re-register
- No voting season - 1 day / 24 hours for voting only
- Make election day a holiday


7 posted on 05/22/2023 9:56:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump, who dwarfs all political experts, recommended ballot harvesting.


8 posted on 05/22/2023 9:57:14 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: SeekAndFind

9 posted on 05/22/2023 9:58:10 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: SeekAndFind

And where are you going to find sufficient quantities of Constitutional Conservatives in actual positions of power and authority (Governor’s, Sec’s of State, Judges, elected reps) to actually make these changes? McConnell? Romney? Murkowski? Purdue? Graham?

Who and where are they?


10 posted on 05/22/2023 9:58:29 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They are using the post office, where every envelope is scanned, to understand who had returned ballots. If an empty ballot envelope was returned for every possible address early in the cycle it would blind them from knowing whose identity to submit phoney ballots in.


11 posted on 05/22/2023 9:58:55 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: SeekAndFind

Ballot Harvesting was just a gimmick to let the government and big corporate operatives take control of the voting. The FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, DOJ, DNC, multiple large Corporations that are government contract dependent, are all now aligned against ‘Joe Citizen’ and have no intention of letting people determine their leaders. There is one party in Washington DC, they want your money and not your opinion. It’s a government of the government, by the government, and for the government.

History says that once ‘the’ people loose control of the election process, and fraud becomes the prevailing factor, it will never be recovered by peaceful means.

That’s why many Americans see the nation breaking apart, divided, and headed towards CWII. There were times it could have been headed off, most recently by Bill Barr, the SCOTUS, or even the new Congress, but each time they took the easy route instead of actually serving the ‘People’.


12 posted on 05/22/2023 10:03:57 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a story I totally disagree.

If the Republicans don’t develop a solid ballot harvesting plan, they will be relegated to a regional party without a national presence.

You can’t change and clean up the election process without winning elections first, you play the game with the rules as they exist not the rules you wish existed.

The only option is to have a solid ballot harvesting program.

You have to encourage Republican voters to vote early not waiting until election day.

Finally you need to engage in Lawfare everywhere to challenge voter rolls to get off dead people and people who have moved.


13 posted on 05/22/2023 10:07:28 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: SeekAndFind

I worked Oregon elections and watched them cheat. When I exposed it, I was never allowed to work an election again.
Today our local radio host KMED.com was given a stack of ballots he found at his motel after last week’s election.
All illegal aliens who were taking truck driving school. They got a license and Oregon sent everyone a ballot.
How widespread is this??
We call it the Oregon motor voter plan.


14 posted on 05/22/2023 10:09:02 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: RightOnTheBorder
And just how do we “restore” the practice when we can no longer win an election due to ballot harvesting in the left?

Good question. State legislatures won't do it. State Supreme Courts, PA and WI for example, won't do it.

There is no other choice then to try and bring it to the USSC one more time, to defend our right to a republican form of government.

And yes, I know the USSC dropped the ball the last time so chances are they will do them same again.

15 posted on 05/22/2023 10:10:38 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: TexasGator

Post the map of crooked MI, PA, WI, AZ and GA.


16 posted on 05/22/2023 10:12:05 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Yes let’s handcuff red states while blue states have a free for all. No wonder we lose.


17 posted on 05/22/2023 10:14:24 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Exactly


18 posted on 05/22/2023 10:17:02 AM PDT by DMD13
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To: SeekAndFind

But the GOP are such cowards they won’t push for it. They disgust me


19 posted on 05/22/2023 10:17:21 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: PGR88
While I agree with your suggestions completely, it’s never going to happen. Pandora’s box has been opened and there’s no going back.

One major party and their minions benefit too much. The other party is impotent. Best to consider alternative plans. Either beat them at their own game (unlikely) or prepare for the apocalypse.

20 posted on 05/22/2023 10:20:39 AM PDT by sjmjax
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