As Alabama has banned ballot harvesting and Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are
fighting ballot drop boxes, GOP campaign efforts are using those same tools where legal. Democrats have long focused on mail-in and early voting while Republicans have warned of potential insecurities of those methods. Now the GOP is starting to embrace it this election cycle. However, the acceptance of mail-in voting as a tool isn’t preventing Republicans from looking to secure or ban certain aspects of it, such as ballot harvesting and ballot drop boxes.