A 2020 Surprise: Fewer Absentee Ballots Rejections Than Expected
With many more people voting by mail this fall, election officials feared that millions of ballots would be rejected in the general election. Instead, rejection rates went down across the country.
Florida resident Kirk Nielsen was very careful when he went to vote this fall. He did it early, and deposited his mail-in ballot in one of many drop boxes provided by his local election office in Miami-Dade County.
"So early voting, drop box. Checked the supervisor of elections website a couple of days later and it was tabulated," he said. "It worked swell."
That was a relief for Nielsen, . His ballot arrived too late, despite being mailed more than a week before Election Day.
