Posted on 09/18/2020 1:39:45 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has introduced a plan to effectively ban ballot harvesting ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Ballot harvesting allows political operatives to collect and deliver as many ballots as they want so long as they are not paid based on the number of ballots they deliver. The loophole allows these operatives to be paid in most cases.
Gabbard said the reform is vital to ensuring that special interest groups do not corrupt the voting process for voters.
Gabbard said in a statement.:
This bill protects assistance from family members, household members, and caregivers as well as election officials and mail carriers acting in their official capacity. Voters will still have assistance, if they need it, to turn in their vote, but this bill makes sure that third-party special interest groups don’t get between voters and the ballot box.
The plan would require that states only permit mail-in ballots to be handled by election officials, mail carriers, family members, and caregivers of the voter.
Nevada’s June primary shows huge issues with mail-in voting. In Las Vegas, Nevada, more than 223,000 mail-in ballots were deemed “undeliverable” in the election — about 17 percent of the total number of mail-in ballots sent out to voters, unsolicited.
Federal election data reveals that since 2012, about 28.4 million mail-in ballots have gone missing in each of the last four election cycles. According to Pew Research Center analysis, there are potentially 24 million ineligible or inaccurate voter registrations on state voter rolls.
Recent data has not shown a compelling public health justification for mail-in voting. In Wisconsin’s April election, only 52 of more than 400,000 voters and poll workers were confirmed to have contracted the Chinese coronavirus. None of those cases were fatal. This equals an infection rate below two-hundredths of one percent.
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I guess she didn’t get the memo.
Little late!
Far too late and she knows it.
Far too late and she knows it.
She’s really one of us. No such thing as an honest democrat.
Far too late and she knows it.
You can say that again. :)
Why doesn't someone from the GOP pick a friendly judge and file a suit to block ballot harvesting nationwide?
This is what the Democrats would do.
She needs to rethink some of her positions, come to the conclusion that her views were still evolving, and join us. She doesn’t belong over there.
Why doesn’t someone from the GOP pick a friendly judge and file a suit to block ballot harvesting nationwide?
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The federal lawsuits are already filed for PA and NV, and I’m sure MI is now on the way.
Thanks for that information...it made my day!
If Trump wins, he should offer her a position, head of the UN or something.
I can’t recall agreeing with her on much before. Is there some hook in this proposal?
If the shoe was on the other foot you can rest assured the RATS would be looking for a "friendly" judge.
She knows this will go nowhere. It is part of a con game to convince voters that democrats don’t want to cheat. Because they sure are going to be cheating on a missive scale.
Tulsi is our representative on the Big Island..The other rep. is in Honolulu. Tulsi changes positions more often than Bernie changes shorts.....and by the way, she was/is for Bernie.
bttt
Too bad she’s not playing for our side as she could be a force to be reckoned with.
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