POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: Not signed, sealed nor delivered
View in browser BY LISA KASHINSKY Presented by UPS MAIL-BALLOT POST-MORTEM — Election officials rejected more than 11,000 mail ballots cast in the state primaries, the bulk of them because they arrived too late. Of the 480,255 ballots cast by mail, 11,412 were received and rejected and another 1,039 were marked as “failed delivery,” either because a ballot was returned to local election officials by USPS or a voter said they didn’t receive it and requested a replacement. The 11,412 rejected ballots account for 2.3 percent of all votes cast by mail and just over 1 percent of the 1,052,414 ballots cast overall in the state primary, according to data from the secretary of state's office. The majority of rejected mail ballots, 8,070, were tossed because they didn’t show up before 8 p.m. on primary day. Another 1,088 were discarded because the voter didn’t sign the envelope containing their ballot, while another 751 ballots were rejected because t...