Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a bill to ban ballot harvesting during federal elections to protect election integrity in the midst of voter fraud allegations during last week’s presidential election.
Hawley’s bill seeks to improve the ability of campaigns to watch vote-counting operations, would require absentee or mail-in ballots to be counted, and require that ballot-counting continue after it is started. The third point likely is in reference to several states stopping vote-counting on Election Night before picking up the next day and later in the week.
