Rejected Mail Ballots Are Showing Racial Disparities

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14. So, What Was The Impact?

Let's assume there were a total of 15,000 black mail-in votes cast and 60,000 white mail-in votes cast.

1/40 of 15,000 is 375
1/160 of 60,000 is 375

Black split 92% D and 8% R is 345 D and 30 R
White split 30% D and 70% R is 112.5 and 262.5
Total D vote lost is 457.5 and R vote lost is 292.5

Net R pickup is 165 votes.

I don't have the demographics for Washington State so the actual numbers will be slightly different, but the effort was to fill in important data the story lacks on impact.

Since these were technical issues those 750 ballots should have been handled as provisional ballots with the voters given the opportunity to correct the defect rather than just tossing them out, so the law needs to be fixed. Example: the registration may list the name as Susan Brown-Johnson but after a divorce she now goes by Susan Brown. Or the difference could be Susan B. Johnson rather than Susan Brown-Johnson. A fixable error like these should not cause the ballot to be outright rejected. That is why the provisional ballot law was written. Now they seem to be reversing course and eliminating provisional ballots and disenfranchising voters.