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Sunday, November 29, 2020

GE WA 11/24/2020 Ballot Return Status Report for Gender, Age , Date Returned

Data and charts on Age and Gender for Returned Ballots for the WA GE 2020 below the break. Click to enlarge the charts.

Thursday, November 19, 2020

GE WA 11/18/2020 Ballot Return Status Report

November 24th is the county certification of the November general election. There are still 35,682 with status rejected (mostly Signature issues) in the November 18th matchbacks. 807 of these rejected ballots are in Whatcom County. 2,226 ballots in WA were "Too Late" to be tabulated.

Voters should visit https://voter.votewa.gov and check their ballot status. For ballot status other than "Accepted", voters may want to contact or visit their county election department websites found at https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/auditors.  For Whatcom County, you can visit: https://www.whatcomcounty.us/1732/Current-Election for Whatcom County Election department contact information. 

Friday, November 6, 2020

GE WA 11/05/2020 Ballot Return Status Report

Key numbers above the break. More details after the break:

[1] "All Ballots:"
[1] 4,111,915

No Previous historical record of Voting in VRDB before 11/2020:
20:       <NA>  456,352 # No "LastVoted"

Voters by Last Voted Dates:
               
Category               "Total.Ballots" "PCT.Total.Ballots"
LastVoted2019orLater   "3109974.0"     "75.6"        
LastVoted2018orEarlier "545591.0"      "13.3"         
LastVoted2016orEarlier "230817.0"      "5.6"         
LastVoted2012orEarlier "57964.0"       "1.4" 

[1] "By Challenge Reason: Top 8"
                    ChallengeReason        N
 1:                 Not Challenged   4058596
 2:         Signature Does Not Match   36860
 3:                         Unsigned    7016
 4:                             HOLD    2048
 5:                           Review    1889
 6:              Ballot Style Change    1687
 7:             No Signature on File    1037
 8:                 Other than Voter     615

Rejected Ballots / All Ballots
round(53328/4111915,4) * 100
[1] 1.3 percent of all ballots currently rejected

Thursday, November 5, 2020

GE 11/04/2020 Ballot Return Status Report

Key numbers above the break. More details after the break:

[1] "All Ballots:"
[1] 4069665

No Previous historical record of Voting in VRDB before 11/2020:
20:       <NA>  440804 # No "LastVoted"

Voters by Last Voted Dates:
                       [,1]            [,2]               
Category               "Total.Ballots" "PCT.Total.Ballots"
LastVoted2019orLater   "3094826"       "76"          
LastVoted2018orEarlier "534037.0"      "13.1"         
LastVoted2016orEarlier "224900.0"      "5.5"         
LastVoted2012orEarlier "56505.0"       "1.4"  

[1] "By Challenge Reason: Top 7"
                     ChallengeReason       N
 1:                Not Challenged    4011243
 2:         Signature Does Not Match   35128
 3:                           Review    8949
 4:                         Unsigned    6519
 5:                             HOLD    2540
 6:              Ballot Style Change    1586
 7:             No Signature on File    1143

Rejected Ballots / All Ballots
round(58434/4011243,4) * 100
[1] 1.46 percent of all ballots currently rejected

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

1,586 Challenged Ballots in Whatcom County as of 11/03/2020

Voters should visit https://voter.votewa.gov and check their ballot status. For ballot status other than "Accepted", voters may want to contact or visit their county election department websites found at https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/auditors.  For Whatcom County, you can visit: https://www.whatcomcounty.us/1732/Current-Election for Whatcom County Election department contact information. 

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

GE 11/03/2020 Ballot Return Status Report

For 11/03/2020, over 3.8M ballots are returned in WA with 47,518 challenged. Almost 29,904 of these challenges are signature not matching . Another 5,857  are missing signatures. Voters should visit https://voter.votewa.gov and check their ballot status. For ballot status other than "Accepted", voters may want to contact or visit their county election department websites found at https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/auditors

For turnout, please see https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/research/ballot-return-statistics.aspx  12% or 453,550 of all returned ballots were by voters who last voted in 2018 or earlier. 365,340 of all returned ballots were by voters whose 'LastVoted' field is "NA". These numbers suggest an increasing number of 'first time' and 'low propensity' voters in this very high turnout election.  And that's significant since it suggests that this group will play an important part in the election:

round((453550 + 365340) / 3782114,3) * 100 =

21.7 percent of returned ballots are potentially from 'low propensity' or 'first time' voters.

General election return ballot data can be found: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/research/2020-general-election.aspx .

Monday, November 2, 2020

GE 11/02/2020 Ballot Return Status Report

11/02/2020 without comment below. One matchback will be  returned before results Tuesday night. Matchbacks will continue to certification.

GE 10/31/2020 Ballot Return Status Report

 10/31/2020 without comment below. Two more matchbacks are returned before results tonight and Tuesday night, although the matchbacks will continue to certification.