Exclusive – Ned Ryun: GOP Needs to Embrace a 'Ballot Chase Program'

“In fact … the Florida Republican Party still does this one thing very well, which is an absentee ballot chase program.”.

“Obviously, people can request absentee ballots,” Ryan said, expanding on the ballot chase strategy.

These people have requested absentee ballots; they are now in possession of these absentee ballots, and then an absentee ballot chase program is how do you get as many of those people to actually return the ballots.”.

He added that the Florida GOP’s ballot chase program has been crucial to Republican success in the Sunshine State in recent years.

Ryun noted that its program costs about $10 million and “becomes a series of phone calls, mail-pieces, texts, door knocks” aimed at getting as many Republican voters’ ballots returned as possible before election day.

In Arizona — and I haven’t really gotten down to exact specific numbers — but I know that there are hundreds of thousands of Republican absentee ballots that were not returned in Arizona by election day,” Ryun asserted.

But I think one of the things, Matt, that we’ve forgotten how to do as Republicans is actually [a] ballots-out-ballots-in machine.”?

“And I think that was one of the things that … was so clear to me in the days following the midterms: if we do not figure this out, if we did not go back to the fundamentals of a ballots-out-ballots-in machine, I do not see how we win the White House in 2024 because … I do not hear people explaining to me, in a rational metric-driven approach, how you’re going to actually win Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Minnesota, maybe even potentially Georgia unless you actually embrace this program,” he added.  “And that, to me, is one of the things that Republicans do not invest the right amount of money.”?