The GOP can never win the ballot harvesting game, so restore mail-in voting to a rare practice only

[mystery-ak]

May 22, 2023
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
By Thomas Lifson

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 Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, 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.

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[Smokin Joe]

In-person voting, voter ID (you need it everywhere else), and put a limit on how long the ballots can be counted. If that means Military and Absentee ballots have to be in by a certain date and time, then make sure they can be there by then.

[Kamaji]

In-person voting, voter ID (you need it everywhere else), and put a limit on how long the ballots can be counted. If that means Military and Absentee ballots have to be in by a certain date and time, then make sure they can be there by then.

[Fishrrman]

"Ballot harvesting" is a vector for "cheating".
It was never anything else.

I've posted in this forum for three years now about The Party's "underground election apparatus".

But "the election apparatus" can exist "above-ground", in plain sight, as well. Such election "reforms" (isn't that a term always used by "progressives"?) can include:
- ballot harvesting
- mail-in voting
- same-day registration
- provisional ballots
- absentee ballot abuse
- ranked-choice voting
... etc.

Wherever you see these things, you should be thinking... "apparatus".

With The Party having established such "control" over the elections in the blue states (and now in purple states as well), in whose favor will the results tend to fall...?

[roamer_1]

In-person voting, voter ID (you need it everywhere else), and put a limit on how long the ballots can be counted. If that means Military and Absentee ballots have to be in by a certain date and time, then make sure they can be there by then.

And for now... till it can be trusted, purple fingers.