Report suggests that more than 25% of mail-in ballots fail

More than a quarter of the 42.4 million ballots that were mailed in during the 2018 election were not successfully counted, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

The report specifies that 1.1 million of the ballots were not delivered to the addresses to which they were sent. Roughly 430,000 were rejected by election officials, and more than 10 million ballots were simply “unaccounted for.”

Nearly one-quarter of the total number of ballots mailed were never received, said the foundation – a non-profit, public-interest law firm.

The question of how to vote in this November’s election has become a contentious one amid the coronavirus pandemic that is keep most Americans at home.

Conservative politicians are in large part opposed to voting by mail, holding to the belief that it is a system that can easily be taken advantage of if voter fraud is your game.

Democrats are largely in favor of opting for an all vote-by-mail option. Former first lady Michelle Obama has become the latest high-profile voice in favor of this measure.

“Expanding access to vote-by-mail, online registration and early voting are critical steps for this moment — and they’re long overdue,” said Mrs. Obama.