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Massachusetts had a 1.28 percent spoilage rate, comprising about 0.3 percent of the total spoiled ballots nationwide.
The report, entitled “Democracy Spoiled,” exposes problems with ballot spoilage—ballots cast but not counted—at the national, state and county levels in the November 2000 election.
The report found that Illinois had the most spoiled ballots of any state—comprising 12.5 percent of the national total—while Illinois, Georgia and Texas together accounted for one third of spoiled ballots nationwide.
Georgia led the nation in spoilage rate, or the percent of ballots spoiled, at 4 percent—more than double the national average of 1.94 percent.
Duval County, Florida—where 27.8 percent of the population is black—ranked as the county with the worst voter spoilage rate in the nation, with almost one in 10 votes spoiled.