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Audio Article: What are the odds your vote will not count?
In elections, every vote counts. Or should count. But a new study by an MIT professor indicates that in the 2016 U.S. general election, 4 percent of all mail-in ballots were not counted — about 1.4 million votes, or 1 percent of all votes cast, signaling a significant problem that could grow in 2020.
Read the article: http://news.mit.edu/2020/odds-mail-vote-not-count-1019
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In elections, every vote counts. Or should count. But a new study by an MIT professor indicates that in the 2016 U.S. general election, 4 percent of all mail-in ballots were not counted — about 1.4 million votes, or 1 percent of all votes cast, signaling a significant problem that could grow in 2020.
Read the article: http://news.mit.edu/2020/odds-mail-vote-not-count-1019
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