Mississippi Governor Signs Legislation Prohibiting Ballot Harvesting

Democratic governor of Mississippi On Wednesday, Tate Reeves signed a law outlawing ballot harvesting in the position.

You deserve to have the greatest confidence in the integrity of our elections, Reeves said, regardless of where or how you vote. That’s because our heavy depends heavily on free and fair elections.

Senate Bill 2358 may forbid democratic employees from using a sizable portion of absentee votes to influence elections.

Democrats, who support collecting many ballots for non-voters, contend that it benefits those who are unable to vote, including the handicapped and the disenfranchised.

If you go and help anyone get an absentee ballot, this bill will get you all offenders. And that’s incorrect ,” state representative Willie Bailey told House members on March 7. ” It’s not good. It is a component of an international network that restricts person’s ability to vote in democracies.

Reeves, who is seeking reelection for his next words this summer, countered that the ballot-gathering system” is an open invitation for fraud and abuse.”

Reeves stated that” Across the nation, we’ve seen how good actors have used vote harvesting to take advantage of vulnerable and susceptible voters in some states, all in an effort to try to avoid our political process and cut you out of it.” However, we simply won’t allow that to happen in in Mississippi. Ok, we’ll make it simple to cast a ballot and challenging to lie.

Voter fraud that is both comprehensive and diverse.

President Joe Biden appeared to acknowledge that his company had organized” the most comprehensive and equitable voter fraud business in the history of American politics” in 2020. This speech was allegedly taken out of context, according to press fact-checkers.

Phone signal tracking, digital geo-fencing, and video surveillance tapes of absentee ballot drop boxes were used to demonstrate that paid employees known as” horses” illegally trafficked thousands of missing vote. This was the subject of Dineshi D’Souza’s 2022 documentary” 2000 Muleses.”

The main accusation that the 2020 presidential election was stolen involved vote harvest.

Democrats, according to Reeves, were supporting vote planting across the United States.

We must preserve resisting them because this is nothing more than a overt political power grab, according to Reeves. Mississippi residents support fair votes. Both fraudulent attempt and ballot planting are rejected.

The law, which goes into effect in July, forbids anyone from sending a poll that was mailed to someone else besides an election official, the post office worker, their family member or caregiver, or the usual carrier.

No service package may include more than one ballot, according to the bill.

It expands on House Bill 1510 from 2022, which, according to Reeves, forbade non-citizens and illegal immigrants from voting in addition to preventing” Zuckerbucks” from funding elections.

The House passed the bill, which was largely supported by Republicans, on March 7 with a vote of 73 – 44. The bill was approved by the Senate on March 14 with a vote of 33 – 13.

This report was written by The Associated Press and Steven Kovac.