{"id":4460,"date":"2023-07-27T05:03:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2023-07-27T05:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:04:45","slug":"rnc-wisconsin-republican-party-launching-bank-your-vote-early-voting-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4460","title":{"rendered":"RNC, Wisconsin Republican Party Launching \u2018Bank Your Vote\u2019 Early Voting Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Democratic Party machine has crushed Republicans in the contest to harvest early votes in battleground Wisconsin \u2014 inside and outside the law.<\/p>\n

The GOP is looking to turn the tables with a new national initiative launching in the Badger State.<\/p>\n

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel this week announced that Wisconsin will be the site of the first state buildout for \u201cBank Your Vote,\u201d a campaign that encourages Republican voters to pledge to \u201cbank\u201d their vote before Election Day.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about commitment, it\u2019s about counting on absentee ballots, and many Republicans say it\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo beat Joe Biden and Democrats like [U.S. Senator] Tammy Baldwin in 2024, we must ensure that Republicans bank as many pre-Election Day votes as possible in Wisconsin,\u201d McDaniel (pictured above) said. \u201cThe RNC is proud to work with Republican leaders across the state to encourage voters to Bank Your Vote and deliver Republican victories up and down the ballot next November.\u201d<\/p>\n

The operation, according to its praise singers, is leveraging the full infrastructure of the RNC, the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and \u201chistoric investments\u201d in a data-driven ground game \u201cto encourage educate, and activate Republican voters on when, where, and how to lock in their votes as early as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The effort includes a state-specific voter resource page, at bankyourvote.com<\/a>, including pre-Election Day voting processes, links to state government sites where voters can request their ballot directly, and digital reminders for voters on all applicable pre-Election Day voting options.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Democrats mocked their Republican opponents, calling the RNC\u2019s early-voting effort hypocritical.<\/p>\n

\u201cWisconsin Republicans spent years\u2014and millions of taxpayer dollars\u2014casting doubt on the 2020 election and undermining safe and accessible forms of early voting, only to now reverse course in the wake of multiple embarrassing statewide defeats,\u201d said Joe Oslund, spokesman for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. \u201cThis about-face to now embrace early voting is a hypocritical and deeply cynical ploy that is doomed to fail thanks to the years Republican politicians like Donald Trump, [Wisconsin Assembly Speaker] Robin Vos, and [Wisconsin GOP chairman] Brian Schimming have spent lying to their own voters about the 2020 election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oslund, like much of the so-called mainstream media, conveniently left out the myriad instances of voting irregularities and violations of election law during the 2020 presidential election. Democrats and liberal activists, financed by mega-donors like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, used the cover of COVID and the fear it spawned to push unprecedented mail-in voting. Local election offices, particularly in Milwaukee, Madison and other Democrat-heavy Wisconsin cities rolled out the widespread use of absentee ballot drop boxes, which the Wisconsin Supreme Court ultimately found violated state election law.<\/p>\n

Now, with liberal justices about to hold a 4-3 majority for the first time in years, a left-wing law firm run by Hillary Clinton\u2019s political fixer<\/a> has filed a lawsuit<\/a> to restore the widespread use of drop boxes in the state.<\/p>\n

The GOP, it would seem, has seen the writing on the wall: If you can\u2019t beat, them join them.<\/p>\n

And Democrats have been badly beating Republicans in the early-voting game. Just days before last November\u2019s midterm election, Wisconsin\u2019s Democrat strongholds were far outpacing Republican bastions, with Dane County voters returning nearly 100,000 absentee ballots and Milwaukee County seeing nearly 90,000 early returns, according to the Wisconsin Election Commission.<\/p>\n

The pandemic drove vote-by-mail numbers through the roof in 2020, but Republicans lagged behind Democrat voters.<\/p>\n

According to a Pew Research poll,<\/a> 58 percent of voters who cast ballots for Joe Biden in 2020 said they voted absentee or mail-in, while just 32 percent of Trump voters did so. Meanwhile, only 17 percent of Biden voters voted in person on Election Day compared to 37 percent of Trump voters who did.<\/p>\n

Republicans in large numbers remained more resistant to early voting in 2022, which saw a predicted \u201cred wave\u201d mostly staunched.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding on our absentee return rate, early in-person voting, and ballot harvesting success in 2022, Republicans must now improve on our overall number of pre-Election Day voters to ultimately secure victory in 2024,\u201d the RNC said in the press release.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the Republican Party in Wisconsin and elsewhere fought against massive ballot harvesting efforts in liberal cities in 2020. Now they are embracing them in large part because the legally suspect practices have been allowed by elections regulators and many courts \u2014 election integrity be damned.<\/p>\n

\u201cA crucial part of getting Republican voters to become pre-Election Day voters will be ensuring voter confidence in elections through our continued Protect Your Vote efforts. In 2022, we had over 5,000 Poll Worker shifts and more than 1,300 Election Observer shifts across Wisconsin to Protect Your Vote,\u201d the RNC said.<\/p>\n

The Bank Your Vote Wisconsin Leadership Team includes Republicans from across the state.<\/p>\n

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