Turning Point USA betreibt „Stimmzettelernte“ – die Praxis, die ihre Führer jahrelang verteufelt haben | Der politische Arm von Charlie Kirks Organisation führt für die Vorstandswahl des Salt River Project am 7. April eine Haus-zu-Haus-Stimmzettelsammlung durch
https://azmirror.com/2026/04/03/turning-point-usa-is-ballot-harvesting-the-practice-its-leaders-spent-years-demonizing/
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Working beautifully with the corporate media, no one does hypocrisy like the Republikan Party.
Fox News refuses to report the truth.
California has the most progressive tax rates in America.
Texas — they have the most regressive. Texas taxes poor folks more than California taxes their richest. Florida just like Texas. Their middle class families pay more in taxes than middle class families in California.
“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.
>It’s best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It’s how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.
>It’s not an inconsistency. It’s very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
>It’s very important to understand, fascists don’t just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil or an unintended side-effect.
>It’s the purpose. The ability to enjoy yourself the thing you’re able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point.
>For fascists, hypocrisy is a great virtue — the greatest.
https://kottke.org/25/03/for-fascists-hypocrisy-is-a-virtue
>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.”)
Although Norm Macdonald would disagree, The worst part is the hypocrisy.
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They don’t act in good faith. Never have. Everything they do and say is a means to an end.
Remember: every allegation is a confession with people like this. Guys who “would have joined…but”. People who accuse others of being “deviants” Literally every allegation they make is them telling on themselves.
Evil group of criminals!
I don’t blame them the same way I don’t blame Democrats for gerrymandering even though they are ostensibly opposed to it.
It’s politics. Hypocrisy is bad but disarmament is worse.
TPUSA is a terrorist organization that needs all of their members arrested.
I mean, Charlie Kirk bused people to the Jan 6 riots.
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.
Ballot harvesting is illegal. As only official representatives are to handle ballots. This includes election workers, family (which has to be acknowledged on the ballot) and USPS.
Gaslight Obstruct Project is all they know how to do. When confronted, then DARVO until the cows come home.
We had a Republican operative indicted for ballot harvesting here in NC. He died before he could face justice, which is what I fear Donny Dumpy Pants will do.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/four-people-plead-guilty-north-carolina-ballot-probe-2016-2018-electio-rcna49534
Guys! Guys! Let me explain. It’s no big deal when they do it.
GOP has done this previously: allegations surfaced that a political operative who worked for Harris had run an illegal “ballot harvesting” operation in Bladen County, with the operative and his helpers gathering up ballots from votes and offering to put them in the mail.
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-election-congress-absentee-ballots-80d9496326fb84c5b478f8c9be46d21c
Harris was a minister running; his son worked in the AG’s office and testified as to seeing the tally’s and time stamps and could validate when these „assisted ballots“ were received and counted.
He even told his father (the minister) that the person he hired seemed „shady.“ And the incumbent made the comment of… „If I had know he was going to use the ballot stuffer…“
GOP has done this for decades.
It took a Democratic DA to finally investigate and file charges.
The main individual died of cancer, his paid workers did some jail time.
And the minister — Mark Harris? Ran again and won; and is now a commenter on Fox News.
You can’t make this shit up.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696603028/mark-harris-son-testifies-in-9th-congressional-district-hearing