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Over half a million absentee ballots were rejected for the 2020 presidential primaries — that’s 200,000 more than what was rejected in 2016

EditorBusiness InsiderAugust 22, 2020

Over 550,000 mail-in ballots have been rejected in the 2020 presidential primary election, a new analysis by NPR reported. 

NPR’s cumulative count for rejected mail-in ballots found that 558,032 mail-in ballots were rejected in states for the 2020 presidential primaries, an alarming leap from the 318,728 rejected in the 2016 general election. NPR noted that the number is “almost certainly an underestimate” since not all states publicly released the number of rejected ballots.

Thousands of mail-in ballots are rejected for mistakes including missing required signatures, being improperly sealed, or not being placed in a privacy envelope, Business Insider’s Grace Panetta previously reported. At the same time, delays in mail delivery have provoked fear that ballots will fail to arrive at all to be counted in time for the election.

These rejected ballots could prove to be critical for the election – particularly for battleground states. More than 23,000 absentee ballots were rejected in Wisconsin’s presidential primary in April – this is a state in which Trump won by almost 23,000 votes, according to NPR.

The upcoming presidential election, where a large number of voters are expected to mail in their ballots due to the …continued .
[Source: Business Insider]

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