Ballot Harvesting Voter Fraud

Fox news host tucker carlson said tuesday that mail in voting combined with ballot harvesting could lead to massive voter fraud.

Ballot harvesting voter fraud. The most recent fraud case involving ballot harvesting was ballot harvesting allows those who cannot easily vote to give their absentee or mail in ballots to someone else who will submit it for. Ballot harvesting or the practice of allowing political operatives and others to collect voters ballots and turn them in en masse to polling stations has drawn bipartisan concerns of fraud from. Election fraud allegations related to ballot harvesting in north carolina s 9th congressional district election in 2018 resulted in an investigation by the north carolina state board of elections. Carlson noted on tucker carlson tonight that president donald trump expressed his opposition to mail in ballots in a tuesday tweet that began by vowing there is no way zero that mail in ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.

But they caution that both can be done safely and securely and that. A significant increase in mail in voting this fall could greatly incentivize ballot harvesting where third parties collect mail in ballots on behalf of voters and deliver them to election. The ballots are supposed to be handled by the voter only or a close. States relying on this method inevitably send piles of ballots to obsolete addresses or to registrants who have died.

That practice was abused prominently in the largest voter fraud scandal of recent decades. North carolina gop operative faces new felony charges that allege ballot fraud prosecutors in north carolina filed new felony charges against a republican political operative accused of ballot. Election experts say trump is partially correct that there is slightly more fraud in mail voting than in person voting. In north carolina ballot harvesting is illegal but it appears that some democrat ballots were picked up by door knockers.