Over half a million absentee ballots were rejected for the 2020 presidential primaries — that's 200,000 more than what was rejected in 2016

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• An NPR analysis reported that over 550,000 mail-in ballots have been rejected in the 2020 presidential primaries. 
• The NPR analysis noted that this is far beyond the 318,728 ballots rejected in the 2016 general election. 
• Ballots can be rejected for mistakes like missing signatures, but a number of ballots are not arriving on time in the first place and thereby being rejected. 
• Ahead of a presidential election predicted with more mail-in-ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic, rejected ballots are among a number of problems that could jeopardize the November election. 
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Over 550,000 mail-in ballots have been rejected in the 2020 presidential primary election, a new analysis by NPR reported. 

NPR's cumulative count for rejected mail-in ballots found that 558,032 mail-in ballots were rejected in states for the 2020 presidential primaries, an alarming leap from the 318,728 rejected in the 2016 general election. NPR noted that the number is "almost certainly an underestimate" since not all states publicly released the number of rejected ballots. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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