Why Democrats love ballot harvesting

The Democrats in California legalized ballot harvesting and it won them several seats in Congress.

In order to avoid coercive voting and ballot box stuffing most states require that ballots be submitted by the person who cast the ballot.  If there are reasons they can't do that, such as health limitations, then they can have some other person deliver their ballot for them.

When ballot harvesting is legal one person can roam around asking people if they'd like to vote and then deliver their ballots for them to the polling station. Essentially ballot harvesting gets people who are too lazy, uncaring, or uniformed to bother to fill out their ballot and drop it into a mailbox prior to the election to vote.

That's why the Democrats love it; it increases the vote from their target demographic, lazy and uninformed people.  Of course given that the ballot harvesters are all Democrats, at least in the last election, they will only bring in ballots from people who are going to vote Democrat and they are quite likely to "help" the uninformed voters figure out how to fill in their ballots.

This is especially scary in California given the massive problems with maintaining accurate voter lists. For example LA has just consented, as part of a legal action, to strike 1.6 million voters from the roles who haven't voted for 2 election cycles.  With ballot harvesting one person could bring in hundreds of ballots from those voters without those voters even knowing about it.  For example a lot of those people have moved or died.  If someone were to request a ballot in their name instead of having to find one person for every dead person's vote to be counted one ballot harvester could turn in hundreds or thousands of dead people's votes.

But even if there is no corruption, even if there is no picking only Democrat ballots the problem is that people who are unwilling to mail in a ballot are not the sort of people we want voting.  Democracy requires an informed people, which is why #FakeNews is so bad, because uninformed people voting will tend to make bad decisions and be primarily motivated by what the government can do for them--at the expense of their fellow citizens in general.

For example many left wing ballot propositions in California are accompanied by highly deceptive advertising.  My favorite was the term limits for politicians proposition, which passed thanks be to God.  The Democrats ran ads against it that said if it passed the ocean would become polluted.  At no point in the ad was anything actually related to the proposition mentioned.

Uninformed voters who don't care enough to mail in their ballots are more likely to fall for the #FakeNews and vote for propositions that really hurt them.

But that's bread and butter for Democrats because anyone who actually reasons based on facts will always reject the vast majority of the solutions Democrats propose; without the ignorant and the lied to--by the #FakeNews media--the Democrat party would disappear.