California GOP Calls for Suspension of Ballot Harvesting During Pandemic

California GOP Calls for Suspension of Ballot Harvesting During Pandemic
A poll worker drops ballots into a ballot box during the California primary in San Diego, Calif., on March 3, 2020. Mike Blake/Reuters
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The California Republican Party has asked the state to suspend ballot harvesting for two special elections set for May 12, claiming strangers going door-to-door during the COVID-19 pandemic could spread the disease.

State law allows people, commonly called ballot harvesters, to personally pick up mail-in ballots from voters who are unable to return the ballots themselves, and take them to drop-off locations.