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1.5% of all absentee/mail-in ballots were rejected in 2022 Photo by Tiffany Tertipes/Unsplash. Voters cast 36,683,450 absentee/mail-in ballots in the 2022 general election. Of that total 549,824—or 1.5%—were rejected, roughly equal to the 1.4% rejection rate in 2018, the most recent midterm election,…
