Tag: ballot harvesting

Trump Asks Republicans to Vote Early, Promotes Ballot Harvesting During Iowa Town Hall

Former president Donald Trump encouraged supporters to take part in early voting as well as “legal” ballot harvesting for the 2024 elections during his conversation with Fox News’s Sean Hannity at a town hall meeting in Iowa on Tuesday. Ballot harvesting refers to the practice of political agents collecting ballots from homes of absentee voters…


Why Are Republicans Greenhorns at Rounding Up Them Absentee Votes?

News Analysis COSTA MESA, Calif.—“I can’t begin to understand what ballot harvesting is,” Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the former Republican House Speaker, said in an interview in the wake of a 2018 political upset in Orange County, California. Democrats had swept the congressional seats in one of California’s few Republican strongholds, largely due to a well-executed…


IN-DEPTH: GOP Embraces Ballot Harvesting, but Some Republicans Have Misgivings

As the 2024 election cycle draws near, Republicans are starting to realize that ballot harvesting has become an integral and necessary part of any successful election strategy. However, opinions on the decision to give in and use ballot harvesting are mixed. While campaigns are already well underway, the much anticipated 2024 presidential election cycle won’t…


Mississippi Becomes Ground Zero in National Fight Over Ballot Harvesting

Newly passed legislation that would ban ballot harvesting in Mississippi is being challenged in court by several civil rights organizations that claim it would harm minority voters and those with disabilities. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Mississippi Center for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU-MS, and Disability Rights Mississippi (DRMS) filed a federal…


RNC Rolls Out Campaign to Push Early Voting

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has launched a new campaign urging Republican voters to cast their ballots early ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The push for Republicans to abandon Election Day voting was announced on June 7 by RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in a video shared to her Twitter account. “The RNC is laser-focused…


Mississippi Governor Signs Legislation Prohibiting Ballot Harvesting

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill on Wednesday banning ballot harvesting in the state. “Regardless of where you vote, or how you vote, you deserve to have the utmost confidence in the integrity of our elections,” Reeves said. “That’s because free and fair elections are a key pillar of our republic.” Senate Bill…


Rep. Claudia Tenney Reintroduces Bill to End ‘Zuckerbucks’ Grants to Election Offices

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) has reintroduced a bill to prohibit tax-exempt organizations from donating to election bodies after institutions linked to billionaire Mark Zuckerberg funneled hundreds of millions of dollars toward such election offices in 2020. “In the 2020 election, Mark Zuckerberg, under the guise of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL)—a liberal…


Texas State Senator’s Election Reform Proposals Hold GOP Lawmakers’ Feet to the Fire

As the Texas Legislature convened on Jan. 10, State Senator Bob Hall (R-Rockwall) proposed a series of reforms that will give members of the GOP majority a chance to prove to voters that they are serious about election integrity. Both houses of the Texas State Legislature are controlled by Republicans by comfortable majorities. Hall, a…


Americans Seeking Fair Elections are Trapped in a Catch-22

Commentary A “Catch-22” is commonly regarded as an impossible situation in which you can’t achieve one thing until you achieve a second thing. But, you can’t achieve the second thing until you have achieved the first. It’s a dilemma made worse by conflicting interests. The term comes from Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel “Catch-22.” The story…


Majority of American Voters Rightly Concerned About Vote Fraud

Commentary Watching the news, you’d be led to believe that vote fraud doesn’t exist in the United States. Since the election on Nov. 8, news article after news article has simply dismissed any claims of vote fraud as “baseless” (New York Times and CNN) and “without evidence” (NPR, New York Times, and Washington Post). Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari…