2020: Possible Mail-in Voting Nightmare | National Review
More than a half million ballots were rejected in this year s presidential primaries. Ballots are discarded for improper postmarks and signatures, and mail-in voters are also more prone to accidentally vote for more than one candidate or make other errors.
In its primaries, New York delivered up the perfect storm of ramped-up mail-in voting and inadequate preparation. In the twelfth congressional district, it took weeks to declare a winner, and the number of rejected mail ballots was roughly three times Representative Carolyn Maloney s 3,700-vote margin of victory over challenger Suraj Patel.
If this had happened in Georgia, in a race a Republican narrowly won over a Democrat, it would be considered a notorious offense against democracy.
What happened in New York easily could preview the general election. NPR notes that more than 23,000 absentee ballots were rejected in Wisconsin s primary this year, exceeding Trump s margin in the state in 2016. Nearly 40,000 were rejected in Pennsylvania, where Trump won by 44,000 votes in 2016.
In light of all this, it makes sense, first and foremost, to try to make more options available for in-person voting.