Texas mail ballot rejections dropped between March primaries and May runoffs

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The number of mail-in ballots rejected by the state of Texas dropped significantly between the March primary elections and the May runoffs, newly-released data from the Secretary of State's office shows.In the March primaries, 24,636 of the 198,520 mail-in ballots were rejected — a little over 12%.The rejection rate in the May runoffs dropped to about 4% — 7,244 of 183,260 total mail ballots received by the state.Meanwhile, about 5% of mail ballots were rejected