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Republicans and Democrats Move Further Apart in Views of Voting Access
Americans largely support several election policies, including backup paper ballots, expanded early voting
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- Republicans and Democrats Move Further Apart in Views of Voting Access
- Majorities of Americans favor several policies to ease voting – and a requirement for voters to show photo ID
- Since 2018, sharp decline in the share of Republicans favoring ‘no excuse’ early or absentee voting
- Partisan gaps on automatic voter registration and removing inactive voters from rolls grow wider
- Americans largely support several election policies, including backup paper ballots, expanded early voting
- Democrats more likely to strongly favor proposals aimed at making it easier to vote; Republicans more likely to strongly support requiring voters to show photo ID
- Compared with 2018, Republicans are less supportive of automatic voter registration, more supportive of removing inactive voters from registration lists
- Among Republicans, younger adults more likely than older people to favor policies to make it easier to vote
- Sizable differences in views of many voting policies by race and ethnicity
- In both parties, differences by race, ethnicity in views of voting policies
- Black adults more likely than White, Hispanic and Asian adults to favor ‘no excuse’ early, absentee voting
- More support for ‘no excuse’ absentee or early voting among Republicans who voted absentee in 2020 election
- About half of adults approve of proposal to end state legislatures’ control over congressional redistricting