Ballot rejection rate improves to 3% in Yellowstone County as voters hit polls

While results are continuing to trickle in, Yellowstone County Election Administrator Dayna Causby confirmed with MTN that about 41% or 29,000 of all ballots have been submitted.

Causby said that roughly 80% of the rejected ballots, about 600 total, are due to voters forgetting to put their birth year on the outside of the envelope, which is a new state law in effect for the first time this year.

“It started Oct. 1, and our office has been working pretty diligently to try to get in touch with every single voter on that list and speak with them in regards to resolving whatever issue it was with that ballot,” Causby said Tuesday morning.