Reason for the status of the ballot. Counties can only choose one reason, even if there could be multiple reasons for the same disposition. The specific cancellation reason a county chooses to enter first depends on county practices. The following are optional values for this field:
• CANC – EMAIL BALLOT UND BATCH: Ballot cannot be delivered to the email address provided by the voter.
• CANC – EMAIL BALLOT UNDELIVERABLE: The email sent with the ballot was returned as undeliverable.
• CANC – INCORRECT DATE: Voter provided the incorrect date on the ballot return envelope, which may include forgetting a portion of the date (month, day, or year), or including a date that is not between when the ballot was mailed and election day (e.g., a birthday).
• CANC – LABEL CANCELLED: County elections office cancelled the ballot due to an error on the label.
• CANC – NO DATE: Voter did not provide a date on the ballot return envelope.
• CANC – NO ID: Voter has not provided valid I.D. to verify their ballot.
• CANC – NO SECRECY ENVELOPE: Voter forgot to include the secrecy envelope.
• CANC – NO SIGNATURE: Voter forgot to sign the return envelope.
• CANC – REPLACED: Voter was issued a replacement ballot.
• CANC – RETURNED AFTER DEADLINE: Ballot was received after deadline.
• CANC – UNDELIVERABLE: Ballot was returned to the county because the address it was mailed to was incorrect or does not exist.
• CANC – VOTE CANCELLED: The original code counties used to cancel a ballot before the above – more detailed codes – were created. Now exists as a generic category that a county may use to cancel a ballot if the reason does not fit in the more specific categories.
• CANC – VOTE CHALLENGED: Ballot was not counted because of a successful challenge.
• PEND – NOT YET RETURNED: Ballot that has been mailed by the county to the voter but has not been returned by the voter to the county.
• PEND – INCORRECT DATE: A code that counties may use to alert a voter that their ballot return envelope has an incorrect date, so that the voter may fix their error and have their ballot counted. The code is changed to ‘CANC - INCORRECT DATE’ if the error is not corrected.
• PEND – NO DATE: A code that counties may use to alert a voter that their ballot return envelope is not dated, so that the voter may fix their error and have their ballot be counted. The code is changed to ‘CANC - NO DATE’ if the error is not corrected.
• PEND – NO ID: A code that counties may use to alert a voter that their ballot will be cancelled if they do not verify their identification within six days of election day.
• PEND – NO SIGNATUE: A code that counties may use to alert a voter that their ballot return envelope is not signed, so that the voter may fix their error and have their ballot counted. The code is changed to ‘CANC - NO SIGNATURE’ if the error is not corrected.
• PEND – NO SECRECY ENVELOPE: A code that counties may use to alert a voter that their ballot is missing a secrecy envelope, so that the voter may fix their error and have their ballot counted. The code is changed to ‘CANC - NO SECRECY ENVELOPE’ if the error is not corrected.
• RECORD – BALLOT RETURNED: Ballot has been returned to the county without errors and will be counted on election day.

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