This is talking about ballot harvesting. Ballot harvesting is legal in many states( including FL until last year, I believe). And it's something ALL political parties do, not just Democrats.
All it is is allowing a designated person to come pick up the ballot YOU filled out (legally) and take it to a designated recieving place. This is done for various reasons. A very common scenario in FL is where someone would go to a retirement home and collect all the ballots there and deliver them to a reception site.
I think many people believe that this posting is about someone stealing dozens of ballots and filling them out themselves or something. That's not what ballot harvesting is.
I would think that banning ballot harvesting would actually hurt the Republicans in FL. Older people tend to be pretty conservative, thus predominately Republican. They're also the ones who tend to have the most difficulty getting out to vote. And since FL has an enormous elderly population, it would seem that banning ballot harvesting would actually hurt the Republicans.
I hope this decision doesn't come back to bite DeSantis in the butt.
Ballot harvesting needs to be illegal. There are too many ways to scam the system.
For example, go to a retirement home and "help" those poor invalids fill out their ballots. Answer their questions if they have any and offer to drop them off at the polling place to save them all time. The ballots handed to you by the MAGA hat wearing old farts around the chess board go into your right bag. The ballots handed to you by the CNN watching knitting circle go into your left bag. I'll leave it up to your imagination which bag gets dropped at the voting center and which bag goes into the trash.
There are many other ways to cheat or at least influence the system. Voting is supposed to be anonymous to counter such efforts.
I think there is a lot of confusion here on this.
This is talking about ballot harvesting. Ballot harvesting is legal in many states( including FL until last year, I believe). And it's something ALL political parties do, not just Democrats.
All it is is allowing a designated person to come pick up the ballot YOU filled out (legally) and take it to a designated recieving place. This is done for various reasons. A very common scenario in FL is where someone would go to a retirement home and collect all the ballots there and deliver them to a reception site.
I think many people believe that this posting is about someone stealing dozens of ballots and filling them out themselves or something. That's not what ballot harvesting is.
I would think that banning ballot harvesting would actually hurt the Republicans in FL. Older people tend to be pretty conservative, thus predominately Republican. They're also the ones who tend to have the most difficulty getting out to vote. And since FL has an enormous elderly population, it would seem that banning ballot harvesting would actually hurt the Republicans.
I hope this decision doesn't come back to bite DeSantis in the butt.
Ballot harvesting needs to be illegal. There are too many ways to scam the system.
For example, go to a retirement home and "help" those poor invalids fill out their ballots. Answer their questions if they have any and offer to drop them off at the polling place to save them all time. The ballots handed to you by the MAGA hat wearing old farts around the chess board go into your right bag. The ballots handed to you by the CNN watching knitting circle go into your left bag. I'll leave it up to your imagination which bag gets dropped at the voting center and which bag goes into the trash.
There are many other ways to cheat or at least influence the system. Voting is supposed to be anonymous to counter such efforts.