Republicans Highlight Early Voting, Ballot Harvesting, and Drop Boxes at California GOP Meeting

It’s part of a national trend in the Grand Old Party after the 2020 election cratered rank-and-file Republicans’ confidence in same-day voting alternatives.
Republicans Highlight Early Voting, Ballot Harvesting, and Drop Boxes at California GOP Meeting
California GOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson speaks about legal ballot harvesting at the 2024 California Republican Party convention in Burlingame, Calif., on May 17, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Nathan Worcester
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BURLINGAME, Calif.—Midway through her remarks at the California GOP’s spring meeting, Harmeet Dhillon quipped about some of the alternatives to conventional same-day voting in the Golden State.
Election administration includes “mail-ballots and their use, ballot harvesting, drop boxes—all the stuff that we’re familiar with in California—in fact, we’re really experts on in California,” she said.

The Republican National Committee’s national committeewoman from California focused on election integrity litigation, much of it seeking to protect what she called “speed bumps on the left’s wholesale ballot harvesting.”

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Nathan Worcester is an award-winning journalist for The Epoch Times based in Washington, D.C. He frequently covers Capitol Hill, elections, and the ideas that shape our times. He has also written about energy and the environment. Nathan can be reached at [email protected]
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