Trump's RNC officially kills the GOP's mail-in voter effort

[GMDino]

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/main-in-voting-bank-your-vote-republicans-rcna143291

Quote:The Trump-branded Republican Party is less interested in promoting voting by mail than in legal challenges aimed at voting systems.



March 13, 2024, 6:23 PM EDT
By Ja'han Jones
In a victory for the extremist wing of the Republican Party, it looks like Donald Trump’s hand-picked leadership team at the Republican National Committee has officially scrapped the GOP’s plan to encourage early voting this election cycle. Instead, the party is taking steps to prioritize legal challenges to voting systems ahead of November. 

As part of the layoffs and budget cuts carried out this week by the newly installed leadership team, they are shuttering a program dedicated to mail-in voting, according to The Washington Post. The significance, of course, is that Trump has pushed false claims that mail-in voting is rife with voter fraud since 2020, months before he lost the election to Joe Biden. Ever since the election, Trump has continued to spread conspiracy theories that mail-in voter fraud cost him that race. In reality, there’s ample evidence that allowing people to vote by mail doesn’t have a partisan effect (and if it does, data shows the impact appears to favor Republicans). 

Nonetheless, the Post reported that the “Bank Your Vote” program, which was designed to encourage Republicans to vote early, is over with:

Quote:A nationwide network of community outreach centers, once a fixture of the party’s efforts to attract minority voters, will be shuttered or refocused on get-out-the-vote efforts. The much heralded “Bank Your Vote” program, aimed at getting Republicans to vote early, will shift to a “Grow The Vote” program focused more on expanding the party’s outreach to less likely Trump voters.

Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel was a staunch supporter of the "Bank Your Vote" program, which may be one of the many reasons she was ousted. The “Grow the Vote” program appears to be a way for Republicans to continue their mission of getting “low information, low propensity voters” — specifically those who don’t typically vote — to the polls this November. (It’s like Republicans have just rediscovered voter outreach or something.)

But the end of the "Bank Your Vote" program isn’t the only sign the GOP is doubling down on its standard-bearer’s antidemocratic tendencies. The Post also reported: 

Quote:[RNC Chief Operating Officer Chris] LaCivita is installing Christina Bobb — a former OAN reporter who has espoused false claims that the 2020 election was stolen — as senior counsel for election integrity. Bobb is the author of a book called “Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024” and promoted the audit of Arizona elections.

This appears to be a realization of the far right’s goal of focusing the Republican Party on election-related “lawfare,” that is legal challenges designed to restrict ballot access and undercut election systems in ways that make it harder to vote. Back in 2022, I reported that this vision was behind right-wing lawyer Harmeet Dhillon’s long-shot bid to become RNC chair. Dhillon insisted that the RNC needed to hire an army of lawyers to lob legal challenges ahead of the 2024 elections.


Nothing screams “We can’t win a majority of voters fairly” like prioritizing legal attacks on voting rights. But that’s precisely what the Trump-branded RNC is preparing to do. Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law and the current RNC co-chair, claimed “massive resources” will go to its so-called election integrity division.


All the more reason for Democrats to be on the lookout for antidemocratic election schemes this fall.

[SunsetBengal]

Well, that's definitely a well crafted argument from an obviously biased opinion. I'm sure the opposite argument from the other side would be just as crafty and emotionally stimulating. How about a bland, just the facts news article on the subject?

[Belsnickel]

(03-15-2024, 07:38 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Well, that's definitely a well crafted argument from an obviously biased opinion. I'm sure the opposite argument from the other side would be just as crafty and emotionally stimulating. How about a bland, just the facts news article on the subject?

Eh, it's a blog post, I wouldn't expect much from it. The big takeaway is that a program the RNC had pushed to promote early voting among Republicans has shifted to instead focus on a more traditional "get out the vote" campaign. Those are the base facts for it.

[*pally*]

I think it is cutting off your nose to spite your face

or to use another colloquism...a bird in hand is worth 2 in the bush

They don't have to like it, but they are costing themselves votes. And relying on court challenges to throw out legitimate votes when they lose is not a winning strategy (see 2020)

[Forever Spinning Vinyl]

(03-15-2024, 07:38 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: How about a bland, just the facts news article on the subject?

LOL

And where would one find that in this forum?

[Luvnit2]

(03-15-2024, 07:34 PM)GMDino Wrote: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/main-in-voting-bank-your-vote-republicans-rcna143291

Actually, Trump has directed both a "challenge all voter rolls to be accurate legally" and go door to door in every swing state encouraging Republicans vote early and sign them up to do it. The goal is to hire teams of 500 to 1000 people in every swing state to work with another 5000 volunteers in each swing state spreading the Trump and conservative message. 

Laura Trump is in charge of this phase, and she talked about on Hannity Tuesday night. 

Republicans need to match the DNC with legal ballot harvesting and they have a great plan to do so on the ground.

On the voter rolls being accurate and up to date, they are in process now of looking at number of registered voters who voted in each county in each primary in every swing state. If they see issue like more people voted than registered, they will file lawsuits to make them update their voting rolls prior to September, 2024.

[*pally*]

(03-16-2024, 12:30 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Actually, Trump has directed both a "challenge all voter rolls to be accurate legally" and go door to door in every swing state encouraging Republicans vote early and sign them up to do it. The goal is to hire teams of 500 to 1000 people in every swing state to work with another 5000 volunteers in each swing state spreading the Trump and conservative message. 

Laura Trump is in charge of this phase, and she talked about on Hannity Tuesday night. 

Republicans need to match the DNC with legal ballot harvesting and they have a great plan to do so on the ground.

On the voter rolls being accurate and up to date, they are in process now of looking at number of registered voters who voted in each county in each primary in every swing state. If they see issue like more people voted than registered, they will file lawsuits to make them update their voting rolls prior to September, 2024.

“Ballot harvesting” is called VOTING

And doing what you say they want to do takes a while lot of money which the RNC doesn’t have. And key swng state’s Republican Parties, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc have nothing left due to 2020 futile lawsuits

[Nati#1]

Election stopped .. at 3 A.M 154,000 ballots in come in 100% Joe Biden ??

[NATI BENGALS]

(03-16-2024, 08:39 AM)Nati#1 Wrote: Election stopped .. at 3 A.M 154,000 ballots in come in 100% Joe Biden ??

Over 60 lame Trump lawsuits attempting to steal the election, and with his #1 skill, gaming our legal system, he wasn’t smart enough to challenge the 3am 154,000 fake Biden votes drop that you know about??