In key swing states this year, mail-in ballot rejections plummeted from 2016 rates | Just The News

Yet ballot rejections have thus far been lower across the United States this year than expected, with battleground states posting strikingly lower numbers relative to both the historical average and more recent elections. 

In Georgia, for instance a state in which Democrat Joe Biden has eked out a surprise lead of fewer than 20,000 votes over Donald Trump the rejection rate in 2016 was a whopping 6.4%, according to U.S. data. 

This year, the rate of rejection in that state stands at 0.2%, more than thirty times lower than the last election, according to the U.S. Elections Project, an election data site run by University of Florida political science professor Michael McDonald that draws its figures from state reports.

Similar trends have been observed in Pennsylvania, whose rate was 0.03% this year compared to around 1% in 2016. In Nevada, the rejection rate more than halved from 1.60% in 2016 to around 0.75% this year.  North Carolina’s rate fell from about 2.7% in 2016 to 0.8% this year.

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Clearly this is because people were so much more careful, there being so much at stake.