After Democrats defied historical trends and political expectations in the midterm elections, some Republicans are reconsidering their party’s resistance to ballot harvesting, voting by mail, and extensive early voting periods.
The GOP has fought in several states to roll back changes to election law that became widespread during the pandemic, such as unlimited voting by mail and the proliferation of ballot drop boxes. Republicans have rejected ballot harvesting in particular as a threat to election integrity.
Thirty-one states specifically allow a person other than the voter who filled out the ballot to return it, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. “You’ve still got, first, potential pressure to make it into a social process,” Olson said. “So, all of this takes us away from a conception of voting that we struggled long and hard to get, which is that it is a profoundly individual decision where you don’t have to feel accountable to your nearest and dearest, let alone a political boss.
“I think he ought to tell people to start their mail-in ballots immediately,” Kudlow said. “Don't stop! Republicans have to learn how to play this game too.” House Republicans wrote in a report about ballot harvesting in California that the removal of any limits on who could submit ballots in the state paved the way for Republican losses in 2018.
While Republicans lost seven California congressional seats in 2018, they performed far better in 2020 and 2022; some analysts have attributed that shift to the GOP’s ability to develop a ballot-harvesting strategy.
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