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If your ballot has a problem, do you get it back?

A rejected ballot is not always a lost vote. Most states let you fix a problem with the envelope, and nationally 53.7% of flagged ballots were fixed in time and counted. That is 303,735 votes that would otherwise have been thrown out.

If your mail ballot has a problem, do you get it back? Share of flagged ballots that were fixed in time and counted, 2024. Nationally 53.7% were saved. 743 counties reported a cure process. Hatched counties have none, or did not report one. under 25% saved25-50%50-70%70-85%85% and over no cure process reported ballotbymail.org · Source: U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 2024 EAVS, questions C7a and C7b. A cured ballot is counted, so it never appears in rejection figures.
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Where the most ballots were flagged

The counties handling the most cures, and how many they saved. Your odds depend enormously on which county you are in, and the rules are the same within a state.

CountyFlaggedSaved
Maricopa, Arizona34,33279.5%
Clark, Nevada22,66966.3%
Orange, California21,64048.5%
King, Washington18,63337.1%
Los Angeles, California17,93837.5%
Riverside, California15,20250.2%
Pima, Arizona14,87340.7%
Contra Costa, California12,73975.3%
San Bernardino, California10,46419.6%
Salt Lake, Utah8,94746.7%

Only 743 of 3,143 counties reported a cure process, so most of the map is hatched. That is the data being thin, not the counties doing nothing: a blank county has no statewide cure process, or did not report one. It never means nobody had a problem there.

This is also why the rejection maps understate the number of people who nearly lost their vote. A cured ballot is counted, so it never appears as rejected. Rejection rates by county → Why ballots were rejected →

Free to use and republish. Source: U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey, questions C7a and C7b.