In New York, more than 1.7 million mail ballots were requested for the June primary, compared with about 115,000 that were submitted during the 2016 presidential primary. “Envelope damaged,” according to a list of rejected ballots provided by local election officials. In Georgia, election officials in 2018 threw out 8,157 absentee ballots, or about 3 percent of the absentee ballots returned by mail for the election that November. In some cases, voters’ ballots have been canceled for administrative errors, such as providing two digits of a birth year rather than all four. “It’s a balancing act,” said Aaron Ockerman, executive director of the Ohio Association of Election Officials.

Source: Washington Post July 16, 2020 14:26 UTC