10 million California mail-in ballots unaccounted for

Millions upon millions of mail-in ballots in California have gone unaccounted for following the state’s first major test of its universal mail-in voting program, a watchdog group claimed this month.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation said in a report this month that “10 million mail ballots [were] unaccounted for” following this year’s November elections.

California in 2021 became one of just a handful of states to adopt a universal mail-in voting policy, whereby every voter in the state receives a ballot to vote via mail prior to an election.

The PILF said in its report that “after accounting for polling place votes and rejected ballots in November 2022, there were more than 10 million ballots left outstanding,” meaning “election officials do not know what happened to them.”