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The whole country
Rejection rates by countyAll 3,143 counties, 2,538 with enough returned ballots to rate. Nationally 1.22% of returned mail ballots were rejected; the highest county was 24.86%.
Why ballots were rejectedThe single biggest reason in each of 2,407 counties. Arriving late tops 40% of them — about as many as every signature problem put together.
If your ballot has a problem, do you get it back?Nationally 53.7% of flagged ballots were fixed in time and counted. A cured ballot is counted, so it never shows up in rejection figures — which means the rejection maps show only the failures that stuck.
Does a postmark save your ballot?In 34 states your ballot must ARRIVE by Election Day, and in Louisiana and Vermont by Mon, Nov 2. In 15 a postmark is enough. The rule people get wrong most often.
One state at a time
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Using these
Newsrooms, election offices and campaigns are all welcome to use them. If you need a cut we haven't published — a different state, a different year, the underlying numbers — ask: press@ballotbymail.org. The data behind them is at /api/wikidata, public domain.