re: GOP elections are futile unless they adopt the ballot collection effort.

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The biggest current flaw is that very few people want a total ban on abortion. Most want exclusions, rape, incest, etc, and 12-15 weeks.

The religious right simply doesn't pull in enough votes on this issue to keep it as a plank. Every red state to date where the people can vote (Kansas and Kentucky) have rejected it.

It ain't a hill worth dying on, and would bring in many Republicans and independents who literally are one issue voters.

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You'll get downvoted to hell for that.

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There is no less issue of integrity than any other election in human history.

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That's a ridiculous argument as the entirety of human history contains untold legions of elections both big and small. I'll guarantee the Presidential elections in Venezuela have less integrity than the election of Mayor in Winnsboro.

Sticking with just US elections, context disagrees. Mass-mailed ballots are inherently less secure than in-person voting and even absentee ballots. There's absolutely no chain of custody for those ballots verifying that they are getting to the intended person (nor even that the intended person even still lives in that location) and often there's only minimal custody chains when going from drop-off location to counting location. That's definitively less secure and pushing for less security in the voting process comes from a lack of integrity.

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Winning elections is about turnout. This is just a method of turnout the GOP can't ignore anymore.

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Wrong. This isn't "turnout" it's simply turning in lump sums of ballots with no real chain of custody. The way of the Left is to grab three inches then let go of two once they encounter resistance. Many on the Right look at this as a victory as we get back two, but the reality is they've gained one. Voting security is no different. If we go along with the normalization of this (and participate in it), they'll eventually push something else. We'll resist at first then people like you will say we need to give in and adopt it. And on, and on until we're at a point where even non-citizens are allowed to vote (that's already being pushed in California).

Stop it now by fixing it instead of just giving in and following them in exploiting problems.

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You're an idiot if you think there party hasn't evolved based on the electorate.

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Sure it has.

You zoomers just have fricked up values.

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So the Republican party prior was a pro-abortion party or did this drastic change in morality all of a suddenly force the party to come out against it?

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The party electorate was actually pretty evenly split, even when this became a platform point in 76. The Republican party didn't really swing to the evangelical right until Reagan's era when evangelism grew throughout the south. Obviously enough of the party felt it could get votes at the cost of those who may leave the party over it (abortion in 76).

People don't change their morality over changes in a party platform, however some issues are a deal breaker. People will join or quit based on these platforms.