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Here are 4 ways the left is grabbing power in America dailysign.al/303RoeD via @JarrettStepman @DailySignal

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal The left is using underhanded strategies to fundamentally alter the nature of U.S. elections, making them less stable and subject to rigging. Chaffetz explained his argument in a talk at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. Here are four of the tactics he highlighted on the left.

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal 1. Trolling at Town Halls

One of the left’s more effective tactics, Chaffetz said, is using activists and media allies to go after conservative politicians at town hall events.

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal Their strategy was to create the impression that Chaffetz was being attacked by his own constituents on account of President Donald Trump, even though he represented a predominantly conservative district.

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal “It was used as a tool and a prop. They paid people to come in. There were people from all kinds of states there,” Chaffetz said. “But they wanted to create this media illusion that it was an organic Utah phenomenon in a conservative Republican’s district.”

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal 2. Weaponizing Nonprofits for the Democratic Party

In addition, the left has been effective at manipulating loopholes to weaponize nonprofit groups, Chaffetz said.

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal Nonprofit groups often hire for-profit groups to do fundraising using what’s called a 990 form, and one of the most prominent fundraisers for liberal groups is Grassroots Campaigns Inc.

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal “They will put on t-shirts—ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Planned Parenthood—and then they’ll start knocking on doors,” Chaffetz said. “Planned Parenthood will say ‘Hey, we’re raising money, 50 bucks, you know, for Planned Parenthood. You with us or against us?”

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal Grassroots Campaigns Inc. collects data on voters that can help predict voting behavior. These groups then use the collected voter data when they go to work for campaigns or a political party, like the Democratic National Committee, “bypassing all of the campaign finance rules.”

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal 3. Nationalize and Skew Elections

Another big initiative of the left, according to Chaffetz, is to change the rules of elections to stack the deck in favor of Democrats and progressives.

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal “If you look at the priorities that they have put forward in Congress and you look through any poll that’s out there about what are the most important issues, you’re going to hear about health care, you are going to hear about the economy, you’re going to hear about immigration.”

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal But this isn’t what the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives prioritized. “Why is it that Nancy Pelosi has H.R. 1, House Resolution 1 … what is her first bill? Does it have anything to do [with] Pew’s top 20 or top 50 issues? No, it doesn’t,” Chaffetz said.

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal “H.R. 1 is about how to reconfigure elections. [Pelosi] wants to reconstitute how we do elections in this country because it’s their calculus. This is my theory that I lay out in the book, that they have to reconfigure how we do voting in this country for them to win long-term.”

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the bill a “naked attempt to change the rules of American politics to benefit one party.”

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal 4. Ballot Harvesting

A fourth strategy is the practice of “ballot harvesting,” which H.R. 1 did not address, Chaffetz said. Ballot harvesting is when an individual doesn’t have to be present to cast a vote. Instead, their vote can be cast by someone else.

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal Vote harvesting allows someone to go around collecting ballots from all of you. They knock on your door and say, ‘I know that you didn’t get to the poll, I know it’s inconvenient for you, but if you just give me your ballot, I'll fill it out, I’ll turn it in for you.”

@JarrettStepman @DailySignal Ballot harvesting made a huge impact in recent California elections, where the tactic threw a huge number of House Republican seats to Democrats. Thousands of new and unexpected voters (or votes) showed up in certain districts and flipped seats.