FA_Q2
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Fraud is not rampant precisely because things like this are illegal. You point out "individual ballots have so little value and the penalties for violating Federal election laws are so severe, I have to ask, why bother" in a previous post and do not see how that specifically shows why ballot harvesting is generally illegal?Why design a system that is more cumbersome than it needs to be. If fraud was as rampant as the Right proclaims why don't we see more concreate examples? You're suggesting a solution in search of a problem. Until Trump it was generally accepted that we didn't live in a banana republic and our elections were fair. The only change I see is Trump's wild accusations. He made similar claims in 2016 and he WON that one. Still he put together a commission to look into voter fraud and all we heard from the commission was crickets.
ANY time you consolidate those votes into larger groups, the propensity for organized fraud increases as the overall influence that action would have in changing the election outcome. It is a big deal because it is precisely this type of fraud that needs to be prevented.