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    2. Election security

    The public is not highly confident that election systems in the U.S. are secure from hacking and other technological threats. Currently, 45% of Americans say they are at least somewhat confident that U.S. election systems are secure, though just 8% say they are very confident in the security of these systems and 55% say they […]

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    1. Attitudes toward algorithmic decision-making

    Roughly six-in-ten Americans (58%) feel that computer programs will always reflect the biases of the people who designed them, while 40% feel it is possible for computer programs to make decisions that are free from human bias.

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    Appendix A: References

    Baker, Bryan. 2017. “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2014.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, July. Bean, Frank D., R. Corona, R. Tuirán and K. Woodrow-Lafield. 1998. “The Quantification of Migration Between Mexico and the United States.” In Migration Between Mexico and the […]

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    Methodology

    This report is based on respondents to a self-administered web survey conducted between Nov. 29 and Dec. 12, 2016, who were matched to at least one of five different commercial voter file databases. This includes 3,014 individuals who were validated as having voted in the 2016 general election and 756 who were classified as nonvoters. […]