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2024 EAVS mail records

The mail-ballot friction file

Rejection rates become misleading when tiny denominators or missing responses dominate. This view requires volume and near-complete jurisdiction coverage before ranking a county.

0.84%

median reported rejection rate among 1,606 eligible county groups with at least 1,000 returned mail ballots.

Higher reported rates in the eligible set

  1. St. Clair County, IL22.22%20,943 returned
  2. Henderson County, TX22.21%1,391 returned
  3. Lancaster County, SC13.71%1,700 returned
  4. Washington County, AR12.43%1,922 returned
  5. Brazos County, TX11.90%2,681 returned
  6. Shelby County, KY11.03%1,251 returned
  7. Pulaski County, AR11.01%3,623 returned
  8. Kent County, DE9.68%5,485 returned
  9. Cleveland County, OK9.66%11,258 returned
  10. Wichita County, TX9.50%1,442 returned
  11. Fort Bend County, TX8.15%10,959 returned
  12. Dallas County, TX7.54%34,035 returned
  13. Benton County, AR7.44%2,943 returned
  14. McCracken County, KY7.27%2,159 returned
  15. Woodford County, KY7.24%1,008 returned
  16. Hamilton County, TN6.99%7,206 returned
  17. Creek County, OK6.80%1,295 returned
  18. Oldham County, KY6.73%2,453 returned
  19. Blaine County, ID6.68%2,753 returned
  20. Kings County, NY6.58%78,064 returned
  21. Comanche County, OK6.42%2,024 returned
  22. Wayne County, NC6.35%1,983 returned
  23. Midland County, TX6.26%1,167 returned
  24. Essex County, NJ6.25%52,158 returned
  25. Oneida County, NY6.22%10,873 returned
  26. McClain County, OK6.21%1,175 returned
  27. Queens County, NY6.20%72,260 returned
  28. Jefferson County, NY6.18%3,041 returned
  29. Orleans Parish, LA6.06%9,422 returned
  30. Lorain County, OH6.06%32,150 returned
  31. Daviess County, KY6.01%2,880 returned
  32. Payne County, OK6.01%1,398 returned
  33. Kendall County, IL5.94%10,416 returned
  34. Marion County, SC5.86%1,298 returned
  35. Bastrop County, TX5.77%1,455 returned
  36. Chautauqua County, NY5.59%4,379 returned
  37. Wayne County, NY5.54%3,252 returned
  38. Aiken County, SC5.53%2,460 returned
  39. Shelby County, TN5.52%8,767 returned
  40. Pender County, NC5.51%1,487 returned