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[quote=BlueFredneck][quote=Anonymous]Frankly, I wish Republicans would make a big effort to make ballot harvesting illegal in all states. [/quote]

You don't want to write this too broadly. While I think while it's arguable that anyone dropping off more than say two ballots of people unrelated to them and not living with them is of questionable value, or that a decent case can be made for not sending off live ballots to all registered voters, what of:

1) an adult kid dropping off a ballot for an aged parent 
2) a dad dropping off a ballot for his daughter before she goes off to Liberty U
3) a husband/wife dropping off a ballot for their spouse (I've done just this although with my wife in the car!) 
4) a roommate dropping off a ballot for the both of them

Now these aren't as suspicious as say

1) a union rep dropping off all twenty ballots from a field
2) a conservative minister dropping off a dozen ballots from aged members living in assisted living 
3) a community organizer dropping off fifteen ballots from homeless people 
4) a business owner collecting ten ballots from his workers and dropping them off

Is that harvesting that needs to be illegal? So far only Alabama has made it so only the voter can drop off their ballot. Other states set limits (e.g. no more than N ballots per person, or only people living with you, etc.) and others don't set any limits.

What is ballot harvesting to you? Do you (or anyone, really) have any numbers of just how many ballots are cast via ballot harvesters (the latter group of examples), and not innocuous "people doing favors for those living with them" activity?

Given the massive turnout in 2020, it seems that people can vote if they want to. So efforts to abolish voter ID just seem, on the surface, to be so much political theater, although it's a bigger issue than electoral fraud for sure.

If it turns out that most of the people who want to vote but don't have ID are senior citizens, I don't see the problem with some sort of amnesty where an affadavit can be made as to birth (e.g. I was born as Jana Blohova, but put down Jane Blow on my wedding license and voted as Jane Smith before moving to this state) as long as proof of current address (e.g. utility bill, etc.) can be established. So if I can trace my activity back to say 1990, at some point, the system needs to have grace. But the central fact is that a consistent ID system is needed, with states able to communicate with each other when people move. [/quote]

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