Conservatives Split on Future of Mail-In Voting, Ballot Harvesting
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In light of recent election results, Republicans and conservatives are debating whether to beat or join the mail-in ballot rush that Democrats have excelled at in most states.
Notably, after prolonged counting of mail-in ballots, Nevada put Democrats over the top to maintain control of the Senate as late results rolled in Saturday.
Meanwhile, voter initiatives to expand mail-in voting and use of drop boxes for ballots passed this year in Michigan and Connecticut.
“The idea that Republicans vote on Election Day and Democrats vote early is not sustainable in the long run for Republicans,” Adams said.
Noting that Democrats have a major head start in the effort to get out the mail-in vote, local Republican leaders across the United States reportedly contend that the GOP must actively rally its base to do the same. In Florida, a rare bright spot for the Republican Party in an otherwise disappointing midterm election, Republican voters outpaced Democrats in early in-person and mail-in voting.
Conservative organizations such as the Public Interest Legal Foundation and the Honest Elections Project long have frowned on going door-to-door to collect ballots, warning that it’s an opening for fraud. Such groups also regularly have opposed universal mail-in voting based largely on concerns about outdated voter registration rolls.
At the same time, a majority of voters surveyed don’t trust mail-in voting and say they think cheating might have influenced the outcome of the 2022 elections, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports.
If you think just doing our own ballot harvesting will solve our problems, you don’t know what the real problem is. If you think their ballot harvesting isn’t a problem, you’re part of the problem.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) November 13, 2022
If you were watching a football game with lots of replay reviews, and EVERY replay review went one way — how much confidence would you have in that replay system? Because that's what ballot harvesting looks like.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) November 14, 2022
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