By Rayna Reid ·Updated February 4, 2022
During the 2020 election, auditors “found that the votes of Black residents were thrown out four times as often as those of white voters” for mail-in ballots in Washington state. Voters of Hispanic, Native American, and Asian and Pacific Islander backgrounds also had heightened rejection rates.
These findings are a definitive cause for concern as the nation wrestles with voting rights, secure ballots, and voter
