'Ballot Harvesting'

One of the biggest criticisms of mail-in voting is ballot harvesting—the practice of collecting completed ballots from voters and delivering them to election officials by third parties rather than having voters return their ballots directly. Republicans have long criticized ballot harvesting. Following the 2020 election, many Republicans alleged that widespread illegal ballot harvesting affected the outcome, when mail-in voting increased due to the pandemic. Those allegations became the focus of Dinesh D’Souza’s 2022 documentary ‘2000 Mules’, which argued that organized ballot trafficking influenced the election. Democrats have discounted these accusations as ‘conspiracy theories’, but this week Republicans appeared to gain an unexpected ally in their criticism of ballot harvesting. Who was this unexpected ally, and how does his accusation of illicit ballot harvesting add credibility to the concerns Republicans have raised? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #428.