7 Elections Reversed After Ballot Harvesting Scandals

H.R. 1, the wish list bill of election proposals that Democrats call the "For the People Act" that failed to pass, would have prohibited state bans on ballot harvesting. The bill's text said the state "shall permit a voter to designate any person to return a voted and sealed absentee ballot... and may not put any limit on how many voted ballots any designated person can return

North Carolina

• The fraud was heavily about vote trafficking, also known as ballot harvesting, in which third parties, including candidates and political operatives, collect and deliver ballots.
• In 2018, Mark Harris, a Republican candidate for North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, hired Leslie McCrae Dowless's consulting firm to work for his campaign. In a gloomy year for Republicans, Harris went on to defeat his Democrat opponent Dan McCready by 905 votes, about 0.3%.
• However, the victory would unravel. The North Carolina State Board of Elections refused to certify the results after evidence of what it called "concerted fraudulent activities related to absentee by-mail ballots."

Messing With Texas Ballots

• Former Weslaco City Commissioner Guadalupe Rivera pleaded guilty to one count of providing illegal "assistance" to a voter in a 2013 race he won by sixteen votes. He was sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine.

Coerced ballots

• In Eatonville, Florida, Mayor Anthony Grant was convicted of a felony charge of voting fraud and misdemeanor absentee voting violations in 2015
• As a candidate in 2015, Grant coerced absentee voters to cast ballots for him
• After his conviction, he was sentenced to four hundred hours of community service and four years' probation

Empire State Trouble

• Former New York State Assembly candidate Hector Ramirez pleaded guilty to one count of criminal possession of a forged instrument during his 2014 campaign

Vote or Get Evicted

• In clear abuse of local government power in Martin, Kentucky, Mayor Ruth Robinson, her husband, and her sons were all convicted of voter fraud after they intimidated poor and disabled citizens living in public housing and in properties that Robinson owns into voting for her on absentee ballots in the 2014 election.

The East Chicago Way

• In the 2003 mayor's race in East Chicago, Indiana, challenger George Pabey had a 199-vote election night lead over eight-term incumbent Mayor Robert Patrick
• After 278 absentee votes came in, it appeared the incumbent was the winner
• Local political operative Allan "Twig" Simmons, working for the mayor, convinced voters in the city to allow him to fill out their absentee ballots in exchange for jobs
• The judge determined that the mayor's allies "perverted the absentee voting process and compromised the integrity and results of that election."

Voting Vice in Miami

• In 1997, Miami Mayor Joe Carollo won overwhelmingly in a five-way race with in-person voting, but it was not quite a majority.
• Law enforcement found evidence of at least five thousand fraudulent absentee ballots
• The trial court ordered a new election, but the appeals court ruled that the city shouldn't bother and overturned the election, reinstating Carollo as mayor

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