To Beat Joe Biden And Democrats In 2024, Republicans Are Working To Bank As Many Pre-Election Day Votes As Possible
THE RNC IS FOCUSED ON BANKING VOTES EARLY
- Today, the Republican National Committee (RNC) is launching “Bank Your Vote,” a nationwide campaign focused on maximizing pre-Election Day voting for Republicans.
- This campaign will encourage, educate, and activate Republican voters on when, where, and how to lock in their votes as early as possible.
- Specifically, the campaign will emphasize in-person early voting, absentee voting, and ballot harvesting where legal.
- The RNC is leveraging our full infrastructure, combining our data-driven ground game and multi-channel digital approach with our legal resources in order to deliver votes for Republicans up and down the ballot.
- Working with partners across the ecosystem, we plan to build a historic all-fronts effort to mobilize our voters to take advantage of voting before election day.
- To learn more and get engaged, visit bankyourvote.com – the RNC’s information hub on early voting.
BUILDING ON THE LARGEST ELECTION INTEGRITY OPERATION IN RNC HISTORY
- Last cycle, the RNC built a robust election integrity operation that drew on our legal, political, data, and communications resources to protect the vote in states across the country.
- This cycle, the RNC is building on our momentum to secure free, fair, and honest elections and increasing our overall number of pre-Election Day voters to secure victories in 2024.
- While we are forced to accept the rules we are given, we will continue to work tirelessly to beat bad laws in the courtroom.
- The RNC’s legal operation has a proven record of holding Democrats accountable. Last cycle the RNC:
- Engaged in nearly 100 lawsuits in 20 states.
- Hired 38 election integrity counsels in 19 states and retained 91 attorneys for Election Day litigation support in each critical battleground state with dozens of attorneys serving in a volunteer support capacity throughout the country.
- Overall, the RNC engaged with 90 law firms throughout the 2022 cycle.
- Last cycle, the RNC’s historic election integrity ground game shattered recruitment goals. We:
- Trained and recruited over 80,000 poll watchers and poll workers.
- Conducted over 5,200 trainings for volunteers to prepare for Election Day.
- In 2022, the Republican National Committee and Republican campaigns effectively targeted absentee voters, resulting in Republicans closing the gap on ballot return rates.
- Republicans surpassed Democrats in several key states for 2024:
- Florida
- GOP rate: 66.16%
- Dem rate: 60.25%
- Georgia
- GOP rate: 94.52%
- Dem rate: 92.27%
- Iowa
- GOP rate: 97.19%
- Dem rate: 95.99%
- Montana
- GOP rate: 79.56%
- Dem rate: 76.20%
- North Carolina
- GOP rate: 84.48%
- Dem rate: 83.35%
- New Hampshire
- GOP rate: 95.69%
- Dem rate: 94.42%
- In 2024, the RNC will look to expand on these numbers by strategically targeting voters that give us the highest return – like low propensity voters or voters at risk of not turning out to vote.
RNC VOLUNTEERS HAVE PROVEN TO BE DIFFERENCEMAKERS
- Since 2020, the RNC’s election integrity operation and our volunteers have produced high-profile wins on the ground in states across the country.
- During the 2021 general election and 2022 primary and general elections, the RNC built fully functional legal command centers in 17 states for issue reporting and resolution.
- In 2021, the RNC resolved 7,233 issues reported by the committee’s trained poll watchers, staff, and attorneys.
- In 2022, RNC volunteers using the party’s reporting software were able to resolve over 20,000 election related issues in the field.
- In Texas, the RNC successfully held a local election official accountable for failing to do her job.
- Harris County Election Administrator Isabel Longoria failed to run a competent and secure primary election.
- Longoria failed at the most basic tenets of election administration: she did not credential Republican poll workers, she did not train enough Republican poll workers, some polling places were not open until 9:30 a.m., and she did not provide adequate support for election officials on Election Day.
- The RNC, State, and County Parties called on Longoria to resign, and she resigned one week after Election Day.
- In Pinal County, Arizona, the RNC faced similar issues in the state’s 2022 Primary.
- Over 63,000 mail-in ballots were delivered to the wrong voters and there were ballot shortages throughout Pinal County on Election Day.
- The RNC and AZGOP issued a joint statement calling for the resignation of the Pinal County Elections Director, who following the pressure resigned the next day.
- In Virginia, during the 2021 general election, the RNC achieved 100 percent poll-watching coverage with thousands of poll-watchers spread across 37 key counties.
- Virginia’s Elections Commissioner described the election as running “as smoothly as we could ask for.”
DEFENDING STATE ELECTION LAWS AND ENSURING FAIR ELECTIONS
- As Democrats attempted to undermine commonsense election integrity laws and weaponize the Department of Justice – attempting to allow non-citizens to vote and weaken election safeguards – the RNC’s legal team fought back in courtrooms across the country.
- Since 2020, the RNC has intervened to defend election integrity laws in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and Texas, including DOJ lawsuits in Arizona, Georgia, and Texas.
- Our efforts have defended commonsense laws that regulate drop boxes, require voter ID, restrict ballot harvesting, and ensure that only U.S. citizens can register to vote in our elections.
- The RNC has also done more to protect the rights of poll watchers to transparently observe our elections than ever before.
- Already this cycle, the RNC has achieved a massive election integrity victory in Florida.
ELECTION INTEGRITY POLICIES ARE WORKING
- Regardless of Democrats’ attempts to delegitimize election integrity laws, voters are seeing the results of making it easier to vote and harder to cheat.
- In Georgia, Democrats lied about SB202, Georgia’s election integrity law, which led to a Democrat-backed boycott meant to hurt small businesses.
- On Election Day in 2021, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that voters saw “short lines,” “few problems,” and no “obstacles at the polls.”
- In 2022, turnout in Georgia reached a “record number of voters for a midterm,” with over a million people voting early across the Peach State.
- In Florida, Democrats disgustingly attempted to smear Florida’s election law SB90 as “Jim Crow” in an attempt to generate outrage.
- On Election Day 2021, reports from Florida’s counties were that the elections went off “without a hitch, with no reports of malfunctions, long lines or other issues at polling places.”
- For the congressional special election in Broward and Palm Beach counties, election officials reported “smooth” voting and no issues related to the state’s new election law.
COMMONSENSE ELECTION LAWS ARE POPULAR
- Americans see through Democrats’ lies, instead supporting Republicans’ commonsense election integrity initiatives by a wide margin.
- This year a poll of North Carolinians found that more than 65 percent of voters agreed that an ID should be presented when casting a ballot in person.
- More than 60 percent of North Carolinians also said they would be more confident in the election results if the state had voter ID.
- A poll of voters in Nevada this year found that 74 percent support the implementation of a voter ID law, with 55 percent strongly in favor.
- A Republican National Committee poll found that:
- 80 percent of voters support voter ID.
- 87 percent of voters are against ballot trafficking.
- 78 percent of all voters endorse a proposed voting plan with five common sense measures: presenting voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, bipartisan observers, and cleaning up voter rolls.
