A Minnesota court issued a ruling Tuesday that blocks a Republican effort to deny ballot collection and voter assistance known as ballot harvesting in the state, saying their effort to block the process was motivated by politics. The GOP had sued in Minnesota to stay a temporary injunction that would do away with Minnesota’s ballot harvesting ban and a voter protection law. Ballot harvesting laws forbid anyone from collecting absentee ballots. While no hard evidence is available, many observers point to the Democrats’ use of “ballot harvesting” as a key to their success in the elections. SQUAD MEMBER OMAR IN PRIMARY SPOTLIGHT AS 5 STATES HOLD CONTESTS TUESDAY“Anecdotally there was a lot of evidence that ballot harvesting was going on,” Neal Kelley, the registrar for voters in Southern California’s Orange County, told Fox News in 2018.

Source: Fox News August 11, 2020 18:56 UTC