Two Republicans fired for ballot harvesting

A pair of Pennsylvania GOP staffers were fired after allegedly orchestrating a potential "ballot harvesting" scheme, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

C.J. Parker, 24, and Shamus O'Donnell, 27, and were both sacked after allegedly sending dozens of ballots to a P.O. box associated with a Republican political action committee known as the Republican Registration Coalition. The PAC's chairman, Billy Lanzilotti, told the Inquirer that he had intended to hand deliver the ballots to voters himself.
 
Republican state Rep. Seth Grove, chairman of the House State Government Committee, said that the incident "is nothing more than ballot harvesting."

"If Gov. Tom Wolf had not vetoed the Voting Rights Protection Act without reading it, this alleged ballot harvesting scheme would not have happened," he added.

The incident is just the latest in a series of GOP-related voting scandals in recent months. Back in April, two Republican voters from Florida's famed retirement community, The Villages, admitted to filing ballots in two different states.
 
Ballot harvesting, which involves having a third-party collect or distribute ballots on behalf of voters, is strictly banned in Pennsylvania except to assist voters with disabilities. State law mandates that voters fill out and deliver their ballots themselves unless they've provided authorization for someone else to perform both tasks for them

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evince said:
Ballot harvesting, which involves having a third-party collect or distribute ballots on behalf of voters, is strictly banned in Pennsylvania except to assist voters with disabilities. State law mandates that voters fill out and deliver their ballots themselves unless they've provided authorization for someone else to perform both tasks for them

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And, should ballot harvesting be universally illegal?
 
These guys knew they were breaking the laws


And now some of their bosses are throwing them under the bus
 
evince said:
Ballot harvesting, which involves having a third-party collect or distribute ballots on behalf of voters, is strictly banned in Pennsylvania except to assist voters with disabilities. State law mandates that voters fill out and deliver their ballots themselves unless they've provided authorization for someone else to perform both tasks for them

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It was there state law

Who wrote it and passed that law?


They were cheating and lying


They will lie about it of course


And let these two young Republicans hang out to dry
 
evince said:
It was there state law

Who wrote it and passed that law?


They were cheating and lying


They will lie about it of course


And let these two young Republicans hang out to dry
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That doesn't address the obvious dichotomy between your position on ballot harvesting and why you are only pointing out a case where Republicans did it illegally. If you think ballot harvesting is okay, then you should be upset that Pennsylvania doesn't allow it to be done rather than focusing on a couple of Republicans who broke that state's laws...
 
https://www.repgrove.com/


Grove Issues Statement on Case of Unrequested Mail Ballots Delivered to Philadelphia P.O. Box
MAY. 10, 2022 /

HARRISBURG – Following a recent investigative report in the Philadelphia Inquirer that found dozens of mail-in ballots had been sent to a single P.O. box in a Philadelphia post office, in most cases without the voter’s knowledge, Rep. Seth Grove (R-York), chairman of the House State Government Committee





At least the have one honest republican
 
“This is nothing more than ballot harvesting and was done, in nearly all cases, without the knowledge of the voters whose names are on the ballots. According to the article, 39 ballots had been requested to be sent to the P.O. box and numerous ballots have already been delivered. If it hadn’t been for the reporters’ hard work and due diligence, who knows how many more ballots would have been erroneously sent to the P.O. box.

“Having ballots mailed out without the knowledge of the voter is a direct result of failed internal controls. This is directly due to a county failing to validate a mail-in-ballot application prior to sending out a ballot. This practice needs to stop immediately.

“If Gov. Tom Wolf had not vetoed the Voting Rights Protection Act without reading it, this alleged ballot harvesting scheme would not have happened. House Bill 1300 would have required elections officials to validate both voter registration applications and mail-in voting applications. It also would have required the return of signature verification. Had these internal controls been in place, no ballots would have been mailed out in the first place. Polling repeatedly shows Pennsylvanians do not have faith in our election systems. I believe this is partially due to the lack of internal controls, which are jeopardizing our election integrity.”
 
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