Some Votes Should Not Count

Democrats don’t want your solemn vote. Democrats want your ballot harvested.

Here’s something professional politicos know well: the broader net a pollster casts, the better his poll results will be for the Left. “How out-of-touch is the Democratic Party?” Ask adults living in America and the poll comes in one way; ask only the American citizens registered to vote and it leans more towards the Right. Ask only those citizens registered to vote who are likely to vote and the poll leans rightward even more.

Democratic Party propagandists are therefore somewhat correct: so-called “voter suppression” usually benefits Republicans. When only the most committed vote, Republicans often win.

The Democrats’ propaganda is in their ceaseless historical allusions to Jim Crow. The fight against voter suppression during Jim Crow—a fight of Republicans against Democrats—was about letting Americans vote when they wanted to vote. For Democrats, the fight against so-called voter suppression today is the inverse. It’s about getting Americans to vote when they don’t want to vote.

What is a vote anyway? People make innumerable selections daily: are they all votes? People give answers to pollsters constantly: are they all votes? Are “American Idol” votes really “votes?”

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a ballot falls into a ballot box but no voter is around to put it there, is it really a vote?

The quintessential tree fallen in the silent forest is the harvested ballot. In ballot harvesting, absentee ballots find their way into ballot boxes, but voters don’t put them there. A candidate does, through a surrogate, who gets paid per ballot. Laws limiting ballot harvesting are what Democrats in Congress seek to overturn. Such laws are what they call “voter suppression” in Georgia—but not in blue New York.

New York also has laws limiting ballot harvesting through its restrictions on absentee voting, but Democrats don’t claim voter suppression there. Nor could they. Just last year, the state’s voters, overwhelmingly Democrats, rejected the Left’s insurrectionary push to allow all votes to be cast via absentee ballots. And, it’s a good thing they did. Unlimited harvesting of absentee ballots would have taken voting one step further from a solemn public duty and one step closer to an “American Idol” text-who-wins-style plebescite.

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