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 to embrace mail-in voting and ballot harvesting operations. While Republicans seem to remain concerned that mail-in voting is more susceptible to fraud, it appears they’ve come to acknowledge that they can’t do without the turnout boost they believe ballot harvesting has provided to their opponents….