California tosses more than 100,000 mail-in ballots from March presidential primary over mistakesBPR, Jul 17, 2020
Problems with mail-in balloting continue to occur around the country as more jurisdictions use them amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as evidenced in California.
More than 102,000 mail-in ballots from the state’s March presidential primary were rejected due to various “mistakes†out of more than 7 million cast, leaving new doubts in the minds of many whether widespread voting by mail around the country on Election Day in November will be fraught with similar problems.
In all, California elections officials tossed 102,428, according to data unearthed by The Associated Press, “marking the highest number of disqualified ballots in the state for a primary since 2014 and highest for any statewide election since 2010,†the Daily Caller reported.
In all, 1.7 percent of ballots had to be tossed, and while may seem small to some people, in a state run by Democrats who have often claimed ‘every vote should count,’ the rate is remarkably high.
What’s more, the failure rate is increasing. The AP noted that just two years ago, the national average of rejected ballots in the general election was 1.4 percent, while in 2016, the past presidential election year, the rate was just 1 percent.
The most common reason ballots were tossed in California was because they were received late. Ballots are to be postmarked by Election Day and cannot arrive more than three days later.
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