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100,000 mail-in votes went uncounted in California's primary

State data obtained by The Associated Press shows 102,428 mail-in ballots were disqualified in 58 counties, mostly because they arrived too late.
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THE SEA RANCH, CALIFORNIA - October 21, 2018: Voting ballot: Absentee voting by mail with hand holding envelope by mailboxes. Absentee voting is voting-by-mail and allows voters who cannot visit the polls on Election Day, to cast their ballot by the US mail.

LOS ANGELES — More than 100,000 mail-in ballots were rejected by election officials in California’s March presidential primary.

The six-figure tally highlights the big gap in the effort to ensure every vote is counted, as a national dispute rages over the integrity of vote-by-mail elections.

State data obtained by The Associated Press shows 102,428 mail-in ballots were disqualified in 58 counties, mostly because they arrived too late. Another 13,000 voters forgot to sign the ballot and canceled their own vote.

Kim Alexander of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation says, "the only thing worse than people not voting is people attempting to vote and having their vote uncounted.”

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