By Hank Stephenson | Arizona Capitol Times
.Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell says elections officials and poll workers will not be enforcing the “ballot harvesting ban” lawmakers approved this year.
“We’re not the police,” she said.
Lawmakers this year approved HB2023, which makes it a class 6 felony to pick up a friend or neighbor’s voted, signed and sealed early ballot and deliver it to elections officials.
The tactic of delivering early ballots to elections officials, which has been dubbed “ballot harvesting” by critics, has been used most successfully by Latino and Democratic get-out-the-vote groups, though Republicans have also attempted to increase turnout using the tactic.
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