VIDEO: TULSI GABBARD SLAMS BALLOT HARVESTING AS ‘RIPE FOR FRAUD,’ INTRODUCES NEW ELECTION SECURITY BILL
“This bill will actually encourage states to stop this practice that’s ripe for fraud, and that poses a serious threat to the integrity of our elections”
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) came out against the process of ballot harvesting in a video posted to Twitter on Friday, critiquing the system as “ripe for fraud” and announcing the introduction of a new election security bill called the Election Fraud Prevention Act.
“Unfortunately, ballot harvesting has allowed for fraud and abuse to occur by those who could tamper with or discard ballots to try to sway an election for or against a certain candidate or party,” Gabbard stated.
The congresswoman continued, “So whether we are in the midst of a pandemic, as we are now, where mail-in voting is likely to drastically increase, or even in a normal election, no one, no one should get in between a voter and the ballot box.”
Banning ballot harvesting is not a partisan issue. It's been used & abused in states like North Carolina and California & is ripe for fraud.
That's why I intro'd HR8285, the Election Fraud Prevention Act w/ @RodneyDavis – to protect the integrity of our elections & our democracy pic.twitter.com/ltZhaenSVB
— Tulsi Gabbard ? (@TulsiGabbard) September 18, 2020
Gabbard went on to reference recent examples of ballot harvesting being used to manipulate votes.