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Ballot packets for the 2024 General Election will be mailed to active voters starting October 15, 2024, with delivery expected shortly thereafter.
In 2014, Utah started allowing each county to make their own decision regarding whether to go to all mailed-out ballots. In the 2016 general election, 21 of 29 counties did so. That rose to 27 of 29 counties in 2018, covering over 98% of their electorate, with all counties doing so in 2020.
Voters broke a record for mail-in ballots during the 2020 elections. Mailed ballots comprised about 43% of all votes, compared with about a quarter of all votes in the 2016 and 2018 elections.
It is not common for a mail-in ballot to be rejected. In a report on the 2020 election, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission found that 98.8% of mail-in ballots were counted and 0.8% were rejected.
In the United States, postal voting (commonly referred to as mail-in voting, vote-by-mail or vote from home [48]) is a process in which a ballot is mailed to the home of a registered voter, who fills it out and returns it via postal mail or by dropping it off in-person at a voting center or into a secure drop box.
The first batch of ballots typically sent out are ones to military and overseas voters. Under federal law, that must happen at least 45 days before an election — which this year is Sept. 21. Some states start earlier. Election offices in North Carolina are scheduled to begin sending mail ballots to all voters who request them on Friday.
As of Sept. 2020, 51 million US voters choose to have their ballot mailed, 49 million have their ballot application automatically mailed, 99 million can vote by mail, and 34 million can vote by mail for disabilities. [5] [6] In the 2020 elections, 65 million voters used mail in voting. [3]
Then-President Trump spoke out against voting by mail in 2020, part of his unfounded claims of voter fraud, and as a result, Republicans were less likely to cast mail-in ballots. The largest ...