No. This has gone on for years. I've been a GOP election officer. No objections at all. There's a special spot to park to get someone to come to the car. At my polling place the Chief Election Officer does it. Ballot harvesting is quite different. It's when someone collects multiple ballots and turns them in. Possibly a paid person. No checks and balances there. |
We had early voting and mail in voting long before Covid, weirdo. |
Virginia rules for early voting and absentee voting used to be much stricter - they have become much more lenient in the past 10 years. You used to have to have a reason to vote early or to request an absentee ballot. I know because I was a poll worker in 2013. I worked at a polling place that was not my voting precinct so I had to vote early. And with leniency comes the opportunity for more fraud. |
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Republicans like to accuse others of things that they do themselves. Recall that it was Youngkin's son who tried to vote twice on a single election day despite being ineligible to vote. |
And he did not get to vote because it was in person and the rules worked. |
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This WaPo article says it all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-correct-strike-down-gerrymander/ |
Yep, but he tried...twice. And my guess is that any "fraud" from early voting happens much more with Republicans than Democrats. After all, there's one party that knows how to play the dirtiest games, and it's Republicans. So, sure, make the voting rules stricter. Democrats will be fine, and Republicans will suffer. |
Suggest you take a look at hte results of absentee mail in voting...... |
The fact that Democrats use mail in voting more than Republicans tells us nothing about where any "fraud" might be occurring, nor does it tell us anything about what the election results will be with stricter rules. After all, we elected Obama twice with stricter rules. |
Most voter fraud comes from mail in voting. |
Cool. Like I said, that tells us nothing about which party is committing more of the "fraud." Anyways, this is all irrelevant now that SCOTUS has decided not to take the case. Nothing about the VA Supreme Court decision in the redistricting case has anything to do with restructuring how elections are conducted in Virginia. |