Roughly 18,000 ballots cast in Massachusetts’ primary election were rejected by officials, newly-released data shows.
Of the 1.7 million votes cast in Massachusetts in this month’s primary, 814,013, or about half, arrived by mail, according to Secretary of State William Galvin’s office. Thousands of people chose mail-in voting for the first time, taking advantage of new election rules enacted during the pandemic that make all voters eligible.--
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