As of Tuesday, roughly 30,000 mail ballots had been flagged for possible rejection or cure in eight battleground states, accounting for a tiny fraction of the roughly 11.5 million mail ballots returned, an analysis by The Post found. Deficient ballots were slightly more likely to come from Democratic mail voters, at 0.32 percent, than Republican voters, at 0.30 percent — and both were lower than unaffiliated voters, whose ballots were flagged at a rate of 0.48 percent. ADExperience also matters in whether a voter’s ballot gets tossed, the data shows. In addition to signature problems, late arrival tends to be one of the top reasons mail ballots are rejected, studies have found. In North Carolina, mail voters are required to include a witness signature as proof their ballot was voted properly.

Source: Washington Post October 30, 2020 20:54 UTC