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orleans

(34,073 posts) Wed Apr 15, 2020, 12:48 AM Apr 2020

the tiedrich reply tweet made me laugh

thanks jeff!

Link to tweet

btw--the douchebag is using the word "harvesting?" really? trying to scare the crap out of everyone? fuck him.

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the tiedrich reply tweet made me laugh (Original Post) orleans Apr 2020 OP

Lol MustLoveBeagles Apr 2020 #1

"Ballot harvesting" "Rampant with fraud" "Honest count" This guy got Frank Luntz working for him? Midnight Writer Apr 2020 #2

He only knows about "ballot harvesting" because that's what the GOP got caught doing. SharonAnn Apr 2020 #3

He only knows about "ballot harvesting" because that's what the GOP got caught doing. SamBob Apr 2020 #4

What the hell is "ballot harvesting"? Sugarcoated Apr 2020 #5

It is pretty much picking up mail in ballots and bringing them off to be counted mercuryblues Apr 2020 #6

Ballot harvesting effort in key House race struggle4progress Apr 2020 #7

ha ha ha. This gave me a good chuckle. riversedge Apr 2020 #8

MustLoveBeagles

(11,636 posts)

1. Lol

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 12:49 AM

Apr 2020

Midnight Writer

(21,803 posts)

2. "Ballot harvesting" "Rampant with fraud" "Honest count" This guy got Frank Luntz working for him?

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Wed Apr 15, 2020, 01:18 AM

Apr 2020

SharonAnn

(13,778 posts)

3. He only knows about "ballot harvesting" because that's what the GOP got caught doing.

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Wed Apr 15, 2020, 02:47 AM

Apr 2020

SamBob

(61 posts)

4. He only knows about "ballot harvesting" because that's what the GOP got caught doing.

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 03:31 AM

Apr 2020

Pretty sure the republicans are the only ones known in history to have cheated when it had to do with peoples votes.
No wonder why they keep trying to put blame on democrats. The republicans are the ones that are trying to cheat their way into staying in office.

Definitely voting blue to get this creep out.
Harvesting...

Sugarcoated

(7,728 posts)

5. What the hell is "ballot harvesting"?

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Wed Apr 15, 2020, 03:31 AM

Apr 2020

mercuryblues

(14,539 posts)

6. It is pretty much picking up mail in ballots and bringing them off to be counted

Reply to Sugarcoated (Reply #5)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 05:40 AM

Apr 2020

“Ballot harvesting” is political jargon for a practice in which organized workers or volunteers collect absentee ballots from certain voters and drop them off at a polling place or election office.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-what-is-ballot-harvesting-in-california-election-code-20181204-htmlstory.html

How republicans cheated using this

https://www.gq.com/story/north-carolina-ninth-district-fraud

The district, which extends southeast from the Charlotte suburbs along the state’s border with South Carolina, held an election last November, just like everyone else. It was a close one: Republican Mark Harris, a far-right candidate who defeated Republican incumbent Robert Pittenger in a primary challenge in the spring, defeated Democrat Dan McCready, a then 35-year-old U.S. Marines veteran, by 905 votes out of more than 282,000 cast.

In the weeks that followed, though, state officials uncovered a number of peculiar patterns among mail-in ballots: In all but one of the district’s counties, McCready won handily among these absentee voters, by 16 points. But in Bladen County, he lost by a whopping 24 points. Journalists discovered that the same names appeared on many of these absentee ballots as “witnesses,” and listed the same one-bedroom apartment as their address.

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The answer, it turned out, involved one Leslie McRae Dowless Jr., a longtime fixture of Bladen County politics who worked as a contractor for Mark Harris’s campaign. And Dowless, it turned out, paid a team to go door-to-door in mostly rural areas, collect unfinished absentee ballots from unsuspecting voters, and bring them to him for completion.

struggle4progress

(118,350 posts)

7. Ballot harvesting effort in key House race

Reply to Sugarcoated (Reply #5)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 06:26 AM

Apr 2020

PUBLISHED MON, FEB 18 20193:33 PM EST

A Republican operative, who last year rounded up votes for a GOP candidate running for Congress, conducted an illegal and well-funded ballot-harvesting operation, North Carolina's elections director said Monday.

The director's testimony came on the first day of a hearing into whether mail-in ballots were tampered with in a race for the state's 9th congressional district seat that saw Republican Mark Harris narrowly defeat Democrat Dan McCready.

The race wasn't certified, leaving the country's only congressional election without a declared winner. The elections board is expected to either declare a winner or order a new election after the hearing.

"The evidence that we will provide today will show that a coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme operated in the 2018 general election" in rural Bladen and Robeson counties, which are part of North Carolina's 9th congressional district, state elections director Kim Strach said at the start of a state elections board hearing ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/18/north-carolina-9th-district-house-election-saw-ballot-harvesting-official.html

riversedge

(70,306 posts)

8. ha ha ha. This gave me a good chuckle.

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 08:50 AM

Apr 2020

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