Turning Point USA is 'ballot harvesting' -- the practice its leaders spent years demonizing

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.



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