'7 Easy Steps for Voting in the WA Presidential Primary' and 'What Happens in you Don't Follow the Instructions!'

An excellent web site is providing the service of listing the ballot status of all WA voters. Please see https://votewashington.info/voter/wa to check whether or not your ballot has been accepted or not. The WA state site www.voteWA.gov is  the most official and straight forward path. Check "Ballot Status" after logging in . -RMF

As of Thursday's 03.05.2020 Presidential Primary matchback, "No Party" declarations (Votes without the proper party declaration) make up about 7% of all Ballots. By the end of this well participated election, tens of thousands of voters could have their ballots rejected  for not declaring a party. Check your "Ballot Status" at www.voteWA.gov . Ballot Return Statistics can be found here. Call your local county elections to "cure" your ballot.  Click to enlarge the charts and screenshots. Also see:

7 Easy Steps for Voting in the WA Presidential Primary 

All State Rejected vs Accepted Ballots by Age and Challenged Groups: 'Non Party' Challenges vs All Other Challenges. 

If you did not correctly fill out the above on your voter envelope, your ballot has been rejected. Screenshot from:7 Easy Steps for Voting in the WA Presidential Primary

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Notes: Not all Party == 'NEI' ['No Party declaration' or 'neither'] are categorized as rejected. Additionally, some counties are not listing 'Party' affiliations with rejections or accepted ballots. This "NULL" category of Party has grown to 36,434 ballots to date.

# Ballot Status Counts Only
PP.2020[,.N,.(BallotStatus)][order(-N)]
   BallotStatus       N
1:     Accepted 1158292
2:     Rejected   66372
3:     Received    8815

Selection of any of the bottom three (NEI, NULL, BOT)  will result in a "rejected" or Challenged Ballot. Check your "Ballot Status" at www.voteWA.gov : 

# Party Counts PP.2020[,.N,.(Party)][order(-N)]
PP.2020[,.N,.(Party)][order(-N)]
   Party      N
1:   DEM 685209
2:   REP 457271
3:   NEI  54030
4:        36434 #NULL
5:   BOT    535

PP.2020[,.N,.(BallotStatus,Party)][,dcast(.SD,Party ~ BallotStatus,value.var = "N",fun.aggregate=fsum)][order(-Accepted)]

Selection of any of the bottom three (NEI, NULL, BOT) will result in a "rejected" or Challenged Ballot. Check your "Ballot Status" at www.voteWA.gov : 

# Party By Ballot Status Counts
   Party Accepted Received Rejected
1:   DEM   671315     5645     8249 #Democratic
2:   REP   450591     1833     4847 #Republican
3:          36327        1      106 #NULL (will be fixed)
4:   NEI       58     1336    52636 #Neither party selected
5:   BOT        1        0      534 #Both parties selected

# ChallengeReason Only
PP.2020[,.N,.(ChallengeReason)][order(-N)]
              ChallengeReason       N
 1:                           1167107 #Unchallenged Ballots
 2:                  No Party   44177
 3:          No Party, No Sig    7995
 4:  Signature Does Not Match    7739
 5:                      HOLD    1489
 6:                    Review    1352
 7:                  Unsigned     655
 8:       Ballot Style Change     596
 9:              Both Parties     541
10:      No Signature on File     524
11:          Other than Voter     498
12:          Canvassing Board     182
13:                  Modified     147
14:                      Hold     112
15:         Voter Name Change      73
16:          Other Than Voter      67
17:            Empty Envelope      57
18:               ID Required      54
19:               Id Required      26
20:              Marked Moved      24
21:                  Deceased      22
22:         Power of Attorney      19
23: Witness Signature Missing      12
24:      No Signature On File       9
25:                   Invalid       1
26:   Advanced Special Ballot       1
              ChallengeReason       N

# Party Counts Only
PP.2020[,.N,.(Party)][order(-N)]
   Party      N
1:   DEM 685209
2:   REP 457271
3:   NEI  54030 #Neither party
4:        36434 #NULL party (should be corrected)
5:   BOT    535 #Both parties marked

# Percentage
# Percent of Neither + Null + Both / All Ballots
PP.2020[,.N,.(Party)][order(-N)][,round((fsum(N[3]+N[4]+N[5])/(fsum(N))),5) * 100]
[1] 7.377

Whatcom County Rejected vs Accepted Ballots by Age and Challenge Groups: 'Non Party' Challenges vs All Other Challenges.