Prominent Republican organizers are endorsing legal ballot harvesting and otherwise taking advantage of looser election laws after conceding that shunning such tactics puts the party at a disadvantage. Republicans have been reexamining their strategies after the widely expected “red wave” largely didn’t materialize during the midterm elections, save some exceptions. Some have blamed Republicans’ reluctance…

This is an adapted excerpt from Fred Lucas’ new book “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections,” now out from Bombardier Books. The paid operatives are sometimes called “ballot brokers.” In Florida, they were known as “boleteros,” and in Texas they were called “politiqueras.” Both of these states passed laws to…

Florida Department of Law Enforcement is reviewing a complaint about ballot harvesting that happened in Fort Myers, the agency told The Epoch Times. The complaint (pdf) claimed Terolyn Watson, Fort Myers Democrat City Councilwoman for Ward 3, has been going through neighborhoods on a golf cart, asking residents to call the supervisor of elections office to request…

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is considering investigating an alleged long-running and widespread ballot harvesting operation among black communities in the central part of state. Law enforcement officials are considering probing the matter on the recommendation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new election crimes unit, the Office of Election Crimes and Security (OECS), officials confirmed. DeSantis’…

Guillermina Fuentes, former Democratic mayor of San Luis, Arizona, was sentenced to jail for her role in a 2020 ballot harvesting scheme. According to a report written by the state attorney general’s office, an investigation was opened into Fuentes after Gary Garcia Snyder, a Republican running for city council at the time, recorded a video…

In a quick bite episode, we sat down with Rabbi Yaakov Menken—director of the Coalition for Jewish Values—to discuss anti-Semitism, as well as why exactly young Jews tend to vote progressive, despite most Jewish congregations being typically more conservative. This video is brought to you by Sekur: https://ept.ms/3yW0Wul Stay tuned for our newsletter so you won’t…

The race for county judge in the second biggest county in Texas was rocked last month when allegations of past fraudulent ballot harvesting surfaced against Democrat nominee Deborah Peoples. Footage from a bodycam worn by a Fort Worth police officer shows a man telling a policeman that Peoples allegedly paid him $200 cash for every…

An undercover video at the polls helped investigators disrupt a local ballot harvesting operation run by a Democratic operative in Arizona, in a scheme that prosecutors have described as a “modern day political machine seeking to influence the outcome” of a 2020 municipal election. Guillermina Fuentes, a former mayor of San Luis, and her associate…

A woman in Arizona officially pled guilty to using her position within the Democratic Party to illegally harvest ballots in what was described by the attorney general’s office as a “sophisticated” ballot harvesting scheme. This guilty plea came right on the heels of two separate events:  The first is a ballot fraud investigation launched by…

An Arizona woman has pleaded guilty to using her position in the Democratic Party to illegally harvest ballots in a ballot abuse scheme. Guillermina Fuentes, the 66-year-old former mayor of San Luis, Arizona, pleaded guilty on June 2 to one count of ballot abuse for her role in an August 2020 primary election ballot harvesting…