Harvesting

When it comes to elections, experts talk about the ground game and that will be more important in the future because of the way the voting rules are changing. The new way is to send ballots to all adults over age 18 several months before the election and have early voting. Enter the ground game. Workers go door to door helping people fill out the ballot, collecting ballots and taking them to polling stations. This is called ballot harvesting and in many cases those collecting the ballots help to fill them out. Many low information voters can easily be manipulated and that opens the door to voter fraud. Statements like, if you vote this way the government will send you money. Those who collect ballots can also have with them voter registration forms. The signature on the voter registration form will match the signature on the ballot. For the most part there will be no signature validation. Much of the TV money during the coming elections will be spent on hiring and training harvesters.