A Minnesota court on Tuesday issued a ruling blocking a Republican attempt to deny ballot and voter support, known as a state vote, saying its attempt to block the process was motivated by politics.
The decision came on the day of the Minnesota primary.
The GOP had indicted in Minnesota for remaining a temporary mandate that would lift the ban on bringing Minnesota and a law to protect voters.
Voting laws prohibit anyone from collecting absentee ballots. Republicans wake up worrying that anyone can influence this for who they fill out.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commission (DSCC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Commission (DCCC) had been charged with blocking the law, making it a crime for anyone in Minnesota to help more than three people vote. Democrats have argued that reducing voter turnout will stimulate voter turnout.
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In March, the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Minnesota joined the pack to “intervene as suspects.”
“According to the Republican commissions, because the temporary mandate leaves the Democratic commissions ‘assisting’ its voters, it will harm the Republican commissions,” the court wrote in its decision, interpreting the GOP argument.
“In other words, because of the temporary dismissal, more voters may have the opportunity to vote for an opposition party candidate who is doing damage,” the court continued. “However, more voters who have the opportunity to vote for their preferred candidate do not present a convincing basis for harm.”
In 2018, Democrats steamrolled Republicans after a similar change in California election law, claiming all but seven of the 53 Golden State House seats.
Despite holding substantial leads on election day, many Republican candidates in California saw their advantage shrink, and then disappeared because late-term Democratic votes were counted in the weeks after the election. While no hard evidence is available, many observers point to the Democrats’ use of “ballot harvest” as a key to their election success.
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“Anecdotally, there was a lot of evidence that ballot harvesting took place,” Neal Kelley, the voter registrar in Orange County, Southern California, told Fox News in 2018.
In Orange County – once seen as a Republican stronghold in the state – every House of Representatives went to a Democrat after an unusual “250,000” drop-by-mail drop-offs were counted, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
“People carried in stacks of 100 and 200 of them. We had several people call to ask if these people could do this, “Kelley said.
In 2016, California government Jerry Brown signed a law AB1921, which legalized the so-called practice of ‘ballot harvesting’. Previously, only a family member or someone living in the same household could collect postal votes for a voter, but the new song allowed everyone – including political operatives – to collect and return for a voter.
“We were down only 26 seats on election night (nationally), and three weeks later we lost virtually every race in California,” outgoing Second Chamber member Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Told the Washington Post. “Sure, if you have candidates who win the absentee ballot, win the day of the ballot, and then lose three weeks later because of facilities, that’s really bizarre.”
Ryan added: “If you win the absent votes and you win the personal vote where I come from, you win the election … I’m not saying there’s anything nervous about it, because I just do not. know, but we believed we were about six seats in California on election night, now I think we’ll lose almost every single one of them. ‘
Although Ryan may have been ostracized by the system in California, the GOP of the state was not.
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“To say we were caught flat by this is just not true,” Matt Gem, a spokesman for the California GOP, told Fox News. “We knew this well, we did it ourselves, we pay attention to election laws.”
Fox News’ Andrew O’Reilly contributed to this report.
