Republican attacks on expanded voting undermine democracy and the GOP itself

For over 20 years we have run literally hundreds of programs to encourage Republican voters to apply for and vote by absentee ballot. The national, state and local parties spent millions of dollars on the programs we implemented. This would include recent attempts at so-called “ballot harvesting” — the practice of allowing volunteers and paid professionals to essentially collect ballots from voters and return them to voting centers.
During this time of global pandemic, when soc