Election Administration and Voting Survey 2022 Comprehensive Report

… states reported 30,700,831 ballots cast by mail. That number more than doubled to 69,337,349 in the 2020 EAVS, as many states expanded opportunities to vote by mail in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the 2022 EAVS, states reported that 35,316,617 ballots were cast by mail and counted.21 The EAVS also collected data on mail ballots transmitted to voters (excluding military and overseas voters covered by UOCAVA) from election offices, returned by voters, counted, and rejected. States reported transmitting 61,460,139 mail ballots for the 2022 general election, of which 36,683,450 were returned by voters, for a rate of 59.7% of transmitted mail ballots being returned by voters.22 Of the mail ballots that were returned by voters, 35,718,700 were reported as being counted and 549,824 were reported as being rejected, for a count rate of 97.4% of the mail ballots that were returned and a rejection rate of 1.5% of the mail ballots that were returned.23 The mail ballot return rate for the 2022 EAVS was statistically significantly lower …