Trust in America: Do Americans trust their elections?
The complexity of the overall system, varying rules on how and when you can vote, and whether the candidate you support wins or loses all impact trust in the election process.
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The complexity of the overall system, varying rules on how and when you can vote, and whether the candidate you support wins or loses all impact trust in the election process.
Americans remain deeply divided about the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and the ongoing congressional investigation into what happened.
Black voters were more likely to say the 2020 election was administered very well both nationally and locally.
Many Americans are heading into the 2020 election with a sense of uncertainty that goes beyond their traditional concerns over who will win.
Mail-in ballots accounted for just over half of this year’s primary votes cast in the 37 states (plus D.C.) for which data is available.
About six-in-ten registered voters in the five U.S. states where elections are conducted entirely by mail expect voting to be easy.
In the 2016 general election, voters submitted nearly 33.5 million mail ballots, but more than 400,000 (1.2% of the total) weren’t counted.
Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about the ease of voting and the broader integrity of the 2020 presidential election.
We developed this explainer to help people understand how, and why, the complex U.S. electoral process is even more so this time around.
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