Minnesota absentee ballot rejections are up from 2018 — and missing witness signatures are once again a common culprit, election officials say. (via Axios Twin Cities)
Minnesota absentee ballot rejections are up from 2018 — and missing witness signatures are once again a common culprit, election officials say.About 6,200 of the more than 288,000 ballots returned to local election offices as of Thursday were deemed ineligible, per the Secretary of State's office.Driving the rejections:Between the lines:
Minnesota waived the witness signature requirement in 2020 as part of an agreement in a lawsuit filed over voting access during the pandemic. This year, however, the rule is back in place. "We saw 130,000 first-time absentee voters in this county [in 2020], so [for] a lot of people, their only experience was not having to provide a witness," Ramsey County elections director David Triplett told Axios.Election officials are supposed to let you know if your ballot is rejected so you can cast a new one.