Older people account for large shares of poll workers and voters in U.S. general elections
Older adults tend to account for large shares of both poll workers and voters in general elections in the United States.
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Older adults tend to account for large shares of both poll workers and voters in general elections in the United States.
In studying voters’ views of election fraud, we found these views varied by whether people got their news from the Trump campaign.
59% of Americans are following news about the 2020 candidates closely, but far fewer are following it very closely at this stage of the race.
Many of the millions of Americans voting in Tuesday’s midterm elections will have to do so while working around the demands of their jobs – hitting their polling places before work, taking an extra-long lunch break or going afterward and hoping to make it before the polls close. As they stand in line, many of them may wonder why it is that the United States votes on a Tuesday, of all days.
Turnout in this year’s primaries for Congress and most state governorships surged compared with the last midterms in 2014, particularly among Democrats. Nearly a fifth (19.6%) of registered voters – about 37 million – cast ballots in primary elections for the U.S. House of Representatives – a 56% increase over the 23.7 million who voted in 2014’s House primaries. Turnout that year was 13.7% of registered voters.
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The firm that runs the presidential exit poll expects to interview about 100,000 voters across the country by the time the polls close on election night.
Although the movement to limit congressional terms has been largely dormant for the past two decades, 15 states do limit how many terms their own legislators can serve.
The great majority of Americans who vote on Election Day will use one of two basic technologies: “fill-in-the-bubble” and other optical-scan ballots, or touch-screen computers and other direct recording electronic systems.
59% of Americans feel exhausted by the amount of election coverage, while 39% say they like getting a lot of coverage about the election.
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