This letter was sent to the Rhode Island Board of Elections from the ACLU of RI and Common Cause Rhode Island, urging the Board Members to reject a proposed bill that would prohibit third parties from collecting completed mail ballots from voters and delivering them to election officials. The letter emphasizes that state law already contains serious felony penalties for any person who “deceives, coerces, or interferes with” a voter casting a ballot, and that the proposed exceptions to the ban are ambiguous and confusing.