Ballot Checklist

In the 2016 election, 23.7 percent of the 140,114,502 votes cast were by-mail. [1]
More than 318,000 of those votes, about 1%, of the mail ballots were rejected. [1]
The most common reasons for rejection in 2016 were missing the deadline, the signature on the ballot not matching the signature on the state’s records, and the ballot not having a signature.. [1]

As of September 17, in North Carolina 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, with 642 rejected, or 4.7 percent. White voters have cast 60,954 mail-in ballots, with 681 — or 1.1 percent — rejected. [8]