Nearly 150,000 California Mail Ballots Rejected in June Primary, Record High Due to Late Arriving Votes The June primary in California set a record for rejected mail in ballots, with nearly 150,000 voters seeing their votes disqualified due to lateness.
This spike in rejections has left experts and lawmakers scrambling to understand the root cause of the problem. According to official figures, 148,241 mail ballots were rejected in June, a rate of 1.
73% of all mail ballots cast. The largest category for disqualifying a ballot was lateness, accounting for over 93,000 rejections. Experts suspect that postmarks on ballots arriving after Election Day may be to blame.