More Mail Ballots Are Arriving Late This Cycle, and They’re Getting Tossed

More mail ballots are arriving late this cycle, and they’re getting tossed

Election officials say the rise in rejections, along with the general sentiment out of Washington, have prompted them to scramble to put safeguards in place.

More mail-in ballots are arriving late and not being counted in key states: report

At least 12 states holding House, Senate and/or gubernatorial races saw more late mail-in ballots go uncounted

Soaring Number of Mail Ballots Thrown Out for Lateness Under Trump

More mail-in ballots are being tossed for lateness than before—an ominous warning ahead of November’s elections.

More Mail Ballots Are Arriving Late This Year

“The rate at which mail votes have been rejected for arriving late has ticked up in primaries this year and general elections last year in roughly a dozen states, prompting election officials to worry that the U.S. Postal Service is ill-equipped to deliver ballots in the fall midterms,” the New York Times reports.