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GOP Belatedly Plays Catch-Up On Ballot Harvesting, Absentee Voting

A man enters a polling place on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In-person voting for the midterm elections began Friday in Minnesota, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming in a landscape that has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic drove a shift to mail balloting in the 2020 presidential contest. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)
  • Republicans are gearing up for a massive vote-counting effort ahead of the 2024 election in a bid to keep the House of Representatives and take back the Senate and White House, five top officials said.
  • The initiative, called, Bank The Vote, will be chaired by Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty and Florida Rep. Byron Donalds and is active in all 50 states.
  • During the 2020 election, held during the COVID-19 pandemic, 37% of Trump supporters voted in person on Election Day, according to Pew, while only 17% of Biden supporters did so. Overall, 58% of Biden voters voted by mail, while 32% of Trump voters did so.
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