CA didn’t count 100,000 mail-in ballots in March. How many were thrown out in your county?

California registered voters will receive mail-in ballots over the next month, regardless of whether they requested them or not.

Although President Donald Trump again on Tuesday expressed doubt that mail-in ballots would result in a legitimate election, his own Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, has explicitly said the U.S. Postal Service can handle a mostly mail-in election.

California has had issues, however. Election officials tossed 102,428 vote-by-mail ballots in the March 2020 primaries, 70,000 of them because they arrived late. Officials did not report whether voters themselves or the postal service was to blame.

The total number of tossed ballots represented less than 2% of all mail ballots in California. Los Angeles County accounted for the most, followed by Orange, San Francisco and Riverside counties.

State officials sought to remedy that issue by extending the deadline for election offices to receive ballots. Over the summer, California extended the deadline for receiving ballots from three days to 17 days after the election. Mail ballots must still be postmarked on or before Nov. 3.

Voters can also ensure their mail ballots are counted by filling them out correctly, sending them on time, and tracking them through a state website.

Read on to learn how many ballots your county had to toss in March, according to the California Secretary of State.

This story was originally published October 2, 2020 at 5:00 AM with the headline "CA didn’t count 100,000 mail-in ballots in March. How many were thrown out in your county?."