Another issue we’ve anticipated is mail-in ballots being rejected. Ballots can be rejected if there’s a problem with them, like the voter forgot to sign, or forgot to fill out the witness’s address. And experts have told us that voters casting a ballot by mail for the first time are more likely to make these mistakes. In North Carolina, a particularly alarming trend: Black voters’ ballots are already being rejected at a much higher rate than white voters’ ballots. Luckily, in that state, voters can fix a mistake and still get their vote counted — but that’s not the case everywhere.
DAVID HUANG