If your vote by mail was rejected, in these states you can still correct it

By Ronny Rojas

As the vote count progresses and the margin of difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden shortens, multiple messages on social media are reminding citizens that, if their mail-in ballot was rejected, in some states there is still time to fix the problems and make their vows valid or "cure" them, as defined by the authorities. 

In total, 18 states offer mail-in voters the opportunity to correct problems with their ballots, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. 

In Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, key states at this time to define the election, voters have that possibility.

In

, the law gives voters five business days to correct signature problems on mail ballots after Election Day, The Arizona Republic reports.

That is, voters have until Tuesday to review the status of their vote-by-mail and fix it in case it has been rejected, according to the reminder made on Twitter by Democratic lawyer Marc E. Elias.

Arizona voters can check the status of their ballot at this Secretary of State site.

In

, voters can check the Secretary of State website for the status of their vote-by-mail.

According to the official site of the state of Georgia, if your vote was rejected, this will happen: "Your county elections office will contact you with a document to" cure "or correct your ballot envelope."

Voters can also call election officials in each county for more information.

According to state authorities, one of the most common reasons an absentee ballot is rejected is because it was not properly signed.

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In

, where this Tuesday the difference in favor of Biden is just over 8,000 votes, the possibility of curing the problems with the signatures of rejected mail ballots is also available.

Voters have until the seventh day after the election to correct problems. 

"It is an opportunity that the voter has to either add the signature that they forgot or correct the signature error that is on the ballot," Assistant Secretary of State for Elections Wayne Thorley said in May, in an interview with the newspaper The Nevada Independent.

The latest update from the Secretary of State, on November 4 in the afternoon, indicates that 3,474 ballots with signature errors remain to be cured.

According to the official report, more than 4,600 ballots have already been corrected throughout the state out of almost 8,000 that needed validation. 

The number of rejected ballots in Nevada could rise because the state is still collecting mail-in ballots from drop boxes and the mail service, according to a report by Electionland, a media coalition of which Noticias Telemundo is a part. 

According to Thorley, Nevada counties will contact voters within 48 hours to notify them of any problems with their vote-by-mail, with options to correct the error.

One possibility is to do it electronically. 

Nevada voters who want to know the status of their vote by mail can do so on this official page of the secretary of state. 

Trump's campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski protested in Pennsylvania on November 4.

The Trump campaign is trying to stop the counting of votes in some states.Matt Slocum / AP

"The redress process is going to be very important for many states with close elections," said Amber McReynolds, executive director of the advocacy group Vote At Home to Electionland. 

The correction of these ballots is now the target of attacks by the Republican party.

Republicans have already filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania to block the counting of cleared ballots.