Lara Trump promises legal ballot harvesting to be part of new RNC strategy

[Ferguson97]

Ballot Harvesting is a Bad Idea whose time has come.

Why?

[Ferguson97]

Ballot Harvesting is a Bad Idea whose time has come.

Why?

Ballot harvesting is bad because the groups that engage in ballot harvesting are partisan.  Voting in sacrosanct.  A fair ballot is one conducted in private, free from undue influence.  There is simply too much room for intimidation when people are allowed to cast/collect ballots outside of the public’s eye.

No one has their ballot harvested against their will. If they're not comfortable with it, they don't have to do it.

[Ferguson97]

Ballot Harvesting is a Bad Idea whose time has come.

Why?

Ballot harvesting is bad because the groups that engage in ballot harvesting are partisan.  Voting in sacrosanct.  A fair ballot is one conducted in private, free from undue influence.  There is simply too much room for intimidation when people are allowed to cast/collect ballots outside of the public’s eye.

No one has their ballot harvested against their will. If they're not comfortable with it, they don't have to do it.

In theory, yes.  But this response is the rhetorical equivalent of covering your ears and yelling “na na na” in an attempt to ignore reality.

In the real world, it’s described as ballot harvesting for a reason.  The idea is that there’s this abundance of Democrat votes out there waiting to be got.  It just so happens that the location of this wealth corresponds to the segment of the electorate most open to suggestion:  the elderly, ESL speakers, the poor, etc.  Interpret this as you want.   

If you have any evidence that this practice results in heavy intimidation of these groups to fill in the bubble for Democrats, then you are more than welcome to present it. But until that happens, you're just speculating.

[Ferguson97]

Ballot Harvesting should be banned

There's no good reason to ban it, only right-wing conspiracies.

[Ferguson97]

Ballot Harvesting should be banned

There's no good reason to ban it, only right-wing conspiracies.

Only the individual voter should be allowed to drop off their ballot .

Rephrasing your position is not an argument.

[Ferguson97]

How do you know the person you hand off your ballot to will actually drop it off and not throw it away?

If you're worried about that, then... just don't give it to them? You're acting like people are having their ballots torn out of their hands and harvested against their will.

Mail in voting also undermines the secret ballot as well . One of the key parts of a proper voting system is the fact that nobody but yourself can know who you truly voted for .

Mail-in voting is secure. Just because you can imagine a scenario where people are opening them up to see who you voted for, doesn't mean it's actually happening.

I didn't expect you of all people to engage in right-wing election denying rhetoric.