Voting behaviors have begun to settle since the mass expansion of mail voting in 2020, and data from recent elections are clear: Thousands of ballots continue to be rejected because of errors such as not properly signing and dating the envelope.
Philadelphia ballots are organized during the 2020 vote count. Thousands of Pennsylvania ballots are rejected each election.Tens of thousands of Pennsylvania ballots will be thrown out in next year’s presidential election as mail voting continues to evolve.
One out of every three to four votes in recent elections is cast by mail, and nearly all mail voters have voted by mail in a previous election. Some voting requirements can be well intentioned but become “just an added complication,” said Enrijeta Shino, an election administration expert and professor at the University of Alabama. “Instead of helping with secrecy and integrity, it is disenfranchising some voters.”
That requirement that ballots be properly dated has been the subject of prolonged political and legal dispute, with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling just before last fall’s midterms that Fecile had no idea his votes hadn’t been counted until told by The Inquirer, saying he was “extremely disappointed and angry that my vote wasn’t counted.”Thousands of additional ballots were rejected for other reasons“naked ballots”
Additional reasons ballots were rejected include voters not signing the outer envelope and not having valid identification on file.Most voters don’t correct, or “cure,” errors on their ballots, though some counties — including Philadelphia — allow them to do so. Some counties try to notify voters of their errors.
Democrats vote by mail at a much higher rate than Republicans, leading more Democratic votes to be thrown out Most likely to vote by mail: Older voters, people who’ve previously voted by mail, and white neighborhoods In a highly segregated city, the patterns in the data are clear. People living in majority-white precincts are nearly 20% more likely to vote by mail than those in majority-Black precincts and 65% more likely than those in majority-Latino precincts.Older voters are disproportionately likely to see their ballots rejected, with rejection rates rising after age 50.One exception is that the youngest voters are also rejected at a higher rate.
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