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the_hoagie t1_j3fq856 wrote

Reply to comment by Kabloosh75 in Majority of 16k canceled Pa. mail-in ballots were from Dems by TransporterOffline

Just to be clear the definition of ballot harvesting is specifically the third party collection and submission of other people's ballots. Just assisting people with voting, even if it's door to door, is not ballot harvesting, nor is bussing people to the polls.

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Kabloosh75 t1_j3fqqw6 wrote

It's ballot harvesting.

The law may not call it that, but when you manage to get a bunch of people to vote since they otherwise wouldn't have especially in large numbers you're harvesting something. Harvesting people to go to the ballot box. You're just not directly collecting the ballot and delivering it yourself.

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ItsjustJim621 t1_j3gkdek wrote

They know what they’re talking about. They watched 2000 Mules and they’re an expert on ballot harvesting.

/s

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the_hoagie t1_j3gmqjn wrote

That's just called voting. There's nothing nefarious about that unless you don't want people to vote. Ballot harvesting explicitly requires physically collecting and submitting other people's votes on their behalf.

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cashonlyplz t1_j3gl0fn wrote

>It's ballot harvesting.

According to you. Ballot harvesting is when a third party is collecting a bulk of ballots, which I believe is illegal.

For example: A major municipality's own board of elections can do almost whatever re: drop-boxes, so long as it does not violate existing State laws/rules. That's not ballot harvesting. Going to a senior center and collecting everyone's ballots would and since senior centers often end up being a designated polling place, I'm not sure we have instances of this happening, at least not in PA, but I don't think it's necessarily nefarious if the people whose votes are getting delivered are all walker or wheelchair bound. Old folks like voting. it's not stopping nor circumventing the election process to aid them.

I think you're a little confused about the facts

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Thecrawsome t1_j3gtmwj wrote

Turn off Fox Jesus Christ

People that who otherwise would not vote who gives a fuck, you just reminded them to vote.

That should be viewed as a Civic victory and nobody should look at that negatively.

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