Turning Point USA is ‘ballot harvesting’ — the practice its leaders spent years demonizing | The political arm of Charlie Kirk’s organization is running a door-to-door ballot collection operation for the April 7 Salt River Project board election

Working beautifully with the corporate media, no one does hypocrisy like the Republikan Party.

“If hypocrisy ever cost us with voters or inspired non-voters to get off their ass and vote against us, we’d stop immediately.” – Republican operatives and elected Republicans, probably.

>In March 2022, Tyler Bowyer, COO of Turning Point Action, the political arm of Turning Point USA, was clear: Anyone who engages in ”ballot harvesting” should be prosecuted.

>The practice of third parties collecting ballots from voters and delivering them to county election officials to be counted, a strategy used by Democratic campaigns — particularly in Latino communities — has been illegal in Arizona since 2016.

>Bowyer and the late Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point and its face until his murder last year, have both argued that ballot collection is a vector for cheating or stealing elections — without citing proof — often amplifying dangerous conspiracy theorists at the same time.

>Such claims were the point of the movie “2000 Mules,” which was an attempt to prove that ballot collection is a vector for fraud in elections. The movie’s claims have been thoroughly debunked — even its creator has admitted the allegations are discredited.

>Kirk is featured in the film and promoted it on his podcast after its debut. He also helped amplify a number of false claims by many of the people involved in it to his large audience.

>But things seem to have changed at Turning Point, which has spent heavily to elect a slate of far-right candidates to the Salt River Project board of directors in this month’s election. A key part of their strategy is going door-to-door to collect ballots from homeowners in SRP’s service area. Or, to use the pejorative Turning Point and other conservatives have used for years to denigrate the practice, they are engaging in ballot harvesting.

>“Team Salt River brought in 30 ballots today,” one post on X said, including photos of Turning Point volunteers holding the completed ballots in their envelopes.

>8 voters. 8 ballots. All people I personally registered last month,” another post says.

>Even Bowyer has bragged about Turning Point’s ballot harvesting operation, promoting the organizations “super chaser” events — a colloquialism for going from house to house and gathering up ballots. (One of his posts features a photo of a woman with what appears to be a homemade hat with “SRP” written on the front as she takes a selfie with a voter. SRP said it “does not authorize the use of SRP branding or anything that could be interpreted as SRP branding.”)

They don’t act in good faith. Never have. Everything they do and say is a means to an end.

Evil group of criminals!

TPUSA is a terrorist organization that needs all of their members arrested.

This is a classic republican cheating tactic.  They prefilled out ballots and go door to door in immigrant communities to get them to sign. Then they turn them in. 

Republicans got caught doing this in my home town in indiana.  

Gaslight Obstruct Project is all they know how to do. When confronted, then DARVO until the cows come home.

Guys! Guys! Let me explain. It’s no big deal when they do it.