Among many of the Republican Party elite, an idea is gaining traction: the GOP war on voting by mail was a strategic blunder
his party to embrace mail ballots after Herschel Walker’s defeat in Georgia, where Republicans passed a restrictive voting law last year that made it harder to vote by mail.
The diverging takeaways reflect an internecine dispute now roiling the Republican Party. A growing number of GOP bigwigs believe that Democrats gained a competitive advantage in the last two election cycles by going all-in on vote by mail, whereas Trump and some of his allies are doubling down on baseless claims that mail ballots are rife with fraud, one of the core falsehoods behind Trump’s insistence that Joe Biden didn’t win the 2020 election.
“Our voters need to vote early,” Ronna McDaniel, the current party chairwoman who’s facing multiple challenges and a backlash from the party’s populist base, told Fox News on Tuesday. “There were many in 2020 saying, ‘Don’t vote by mail, don’t vote early,’ and we have to stop that and understand that if Democrats are getting ballots in for a month, we can’t expect to get it all done in one day.”
In other words, it’s a system that gives campaigns an edge at turning non-voters into voters. And while vote by mail does not inherently advantage Democrats or Republicans, many suspect it has boosted Democrats over the last two elections simply because they seized on the opportunity while their opposition squandered it.
Meanwhile, Mike Lindell, the founder and CEO of MyPillow who played a significant role in trying to help Trump overturn the 2020 election, is mounting a long-shot bid to head the party. He wants to get rid of mail ballots completely. “Absolutely not, hell no!” Lindell told TIME when asked whether Republicans should rethink their strategy on voting by mail. “You don’t expand the problem!”
Ballot harvesting is a pejorative term for when political operatives collect absentee ballots from voters’ homes and deliver them to a polling place, drop box, or election board. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 31 statesvoters to authorize someone else to return their ballot on their behalf, but many of those states have firm rules about who voters can entrust with the process.
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