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Both Black and Hispanic voters are having their ballots rejected at a 0.8% rate, according to data provided to the Orlando Sentinel, compared to a 0.3% rejection rate for white voters.
For example, in several cities in Wisconsin and Ohio, predominantly white neighborhoods applied for absentee ballots at higher rates compared to predominantly Black neighborhoods; unsurprisingly, this ...
As of September 17, Black voters’ ballots are being rejected at more than four times the rate of white voters, according to the state’s numbers. 1 Black voters have mailed in 13,747 ballots ...
Auditors in Washington State found that the mail ballots of Black voters were being rejected at four times the rate of white voters. Similar trends have been seen in other states.
Census data indicates that in 2018, 24 percent of white voters cast a ballot by mail compared to just 11 percent of Black voters. “We are stress-testing all the institutions of democracy at once,” ...
Now almost a year and a half later, it has been found in multiple states that the mail-in ballots of Black voters were rejected more often than white voters, according to the New York Times.
Black voters were more than twice as likely to have mail-in ballots rejected than those submitted by the state’s white voters in 2018, and rejection rates for 2020 show a similar pattern ...
Of the 6,020 mail ballots rejected in North Carolina, 2,477 (41.1 percent) were from non-Hispanic Black voters while 2,634 (43.7 percent) were from white voters.
In Broward County, the racial disparities, though still apparent, are less pronounced. The county has flagged ballots for 0.14% of Black voters, 0.13% of Hispanic voters and 0.11% of white voters ...