Ballot harvesting of who j? The citizen got their ballot that was requested by them, filled out their ballot and voted for who they chose, was then dropped in a ballot box or mail box, by a friend or neighbor or family member? The citizen didn't break the law and lose their vote.... the person picking up the ballot in the sealed envelope (harvesting it), might have broken the law, depending on the state, (because in some states it is perfectly legal to harvest and drop off ballots)but the citizen's vote still counts....
The worry about mass harvesting of neighborhoods, is that the voter could be tricked in to leaving their envelope opened so their vote could be changed, or a harvester collected ballots, as example, from a black neighborhood that they guessed would be a majority of votes for democrats, and NOT dropping them off in a ballot drop box or mail box..... Which republican operatives have been caught doing and charged with a felony for it.
The possible crime and criminal, are or is, the person who collected the citizen's vote and manipulated the citizen's vote by changing it, or by not dropping it off to be counted.
Some states have set up systems where the voter can check to see if their ballot has been received, and have measures the citizen can take if it was not received by them.... by coming in to vote on election day, or stopping by the town election office, via provisional ballot, counted if the system shows their original mail in ballot and was not received....and that they did not vote in person anywhere....
Some states have new measures on how their absentee/mail in ballots are given out... A mandatory request by the registered voter, with signature match for the request, some require a witness signature of the citizen requesting the ballot, some require an affidavit or notary seal... swearing that you the citizen registered voter is requesting one, all with where the ballot is to be mailed, and in some states like mine, I can request a ballot via the internet by answering some pertinent questions, then the state forwards the request to my town office, they verify my form request, and mail me a ballot to my home address....
My state believes every citizen has a constitutional right to vote, its in our own constitution, and every citizen, even FELONS have the right to vote here in Maine, (but very few end up voting).... they make it as easy as they can, for a citizen of this state to vote...you can even register to vote up to election day!!! But Maine can be different because we only have 1.3 million people in this big area state, with lots of small towns where everyone knows your name! (and what you're doing!)
NONE of the 5 or so swing states are anywhere near to.... the ease in voting for their citizens as Maine.... They all have much stricter provisions.
But overall, it's near IMPOSSIBLE for those swing states, under their checks and balances in their election process, that mass cheating/fraud can take place... Especially via mass absentee ballot harvesting fraud....
-Absentee Ballots were only mailed to a legal, registered voter, who requested one.
-Once your absentee ballot is received, the election precinct office checks to see if you did officially request a ballot and had NOT early voted, then the voter is put on the voter roll as already voted, so they can not vote in person at their voting district. In some of the States, if there is anything wrong with your absentee ballot envelope, your election office can notify you that your signature is off or you forgot something else that your State required on the envelope, ..... and you are given a chance to rectify it.
Massive voter fraud, via getting and changing voter's votes is truly, nearly impossible to occur. Small voter fraud via a person requesting an absentee ballot for their recently dead mother, is possible, several Republicans in the 2020 election committed this voter fraud and were caught via the last sweep of dead voters off the rolls, or via the signature not matching, but it did not, and never would, amount to enough fraud to change the election results in a statewide or national election.
In these swing states a voter signature match is required to request the ballot and where it is to be mailed.
Even if fraudsters, conspired to request a ballot for say a list of voters they have that never or infrequently vote, taking the chance that they won't show up to vote....where are these fraudsters that request a ballot in this other person's name, have it mailed, so they could fraudulently get the absentee ballot, to vote?
Will everyone on their infrequent voter list that they fraudulently request a ballot for get mailed to one spot or do they have 10 or 20 or 50,000 different addresses of fraudsters working with them to get these infrequent voters or even DEAD voter's absentee ballots that they requested on the list? If they all went to 20 or 100 homes, that would be caught.
And as mentioned, if the concern is some fraudster found tens of thousands of dead voters on the voter roll, and ordered absentee ballots for each one, and somehow... miraculously knew each one of these dead voter's signature to forge all of them, where in the world would the absentee ballot be mailed to... for the fraudsters to get them?
And if you believed you have dead registered voters still on the voter rolls that voted, then examine who voted that was dead at the time....this info is available, and provable, with actual evidence.
I truly have... in all's honesty ...researched this and reviewed this possibility of voter fraud with absentee ballots and harvesting and ballot stuffing, and the checks and balances along with others not mentioned, really, really, really....make any kind of massive voter fraud, extremely unlikely.
www.archives.gov
www.westernjournal.com
