Ballot harvesting can be viewed as a voter service that greatly improves turnout or an underhanded political tool that leaves elections open to fraud.
A practice long used by both political parties, special-interest groups and political operatives, ballot harvesting can be viewed as a voter service that greatly improves turnout or an underhanded political tool that leaves elections open to fraud.
Ballot harvesting groups see their mission as supporting voters who are ill, too busy with work, or the elderly who may need assistance. Collecting ballots in this way has also been instrumental for decades to the Native Americans living on remote reservations. A hearing in Phoenix on Tuesday by the U.S. House Subcommittee on Elections posed the question"Should this practice be illegal?" Ballot harvesting has been illegal in Arizona since 2016, when State Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita authored the law that banned the practice. She was in court on Tuesday to testify and defend that law.."The practice of allowing third parties to collect other people's ballots is not good government and it's not a good elections practice.
"For many years it was something that was allowed and permissible," said Gallego."What happened when you look at the history is that when the Latino Democratic community started practicing the same thing that the Republicans practiced, then all of a sudden it was a problem."of Congressional candidate Mark Harris in North Carolina, which ultimately led to state officials refusing to certify his win.
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