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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.
A new voting provision on ID numbers was the main reason that Texas absentee applications and mail ballots were rejected in the state’s primary elections in March, according to a study released ...
A 2008 study found that the strictest voter ID laws reduced voter turnout relative to the most lax form of such laws (stating one's name). The same study reported that "the stricter voter identification requirements depress turnout to a greater extent for less educated and lower income populations, for both minorities and non-minorities."
Of those rejected mail-in ballots, the most common reason for rejection was mismatched signatures, at 32.8%. In the 2020 presidential election, 157,477 ballots were rejected for this reason.
The Arizona voter registration requirements arose from a 2004 Arizona proposition, Arizona Proposition 200 (2004), which was a ballot initiative designed in part "to combat voter fraud by requiring voters to present proof of citizenship when they register to vote and to present identification when they vote on election day."
HB 554 prevents people from voting in New Hampshire if they maintained a domicile address in another state; HB 362 forbids students from registering to vote at their college address; and HB 429 prohibits the use of a college ID as a voter ID. As of February 8, 2021, at least seven other bills that would restrict voting access have been ...
Thousands of Texas voters' mail-in ballots for midterm primary elections have been rejected for failing to comply with new Republican-backed identification requirements passed in the wake of ...
Ohio now has the strictest voter ID law in the U.S., preventing thousands from voting. ... And while voters in many other states with strict voter ID laws can use some form of expired ID to vote ...