---
title: "Vote Count Confidence"
description: "That's the percentage of registered voters who expressed concern about whether their ballots would be tallied properly in Tuesday's election."
date: "2006-11-09"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2006/11/09/vote-count-confidence/"
---

# Vote Count Confidence

An October poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that 12% of registered voters expressed some concern about whether their ballots would be accurately counted in the coming November election. But, huge confidence gaps appeared between different political and demographic groups: 91% of whites were either “very” or “somewhat” confident their vote would be accurately counted compared with 67% of blacks. Republicans were much more likely than both independents and Democrats to express confidence in the accuracy of the vote count; 79% of Republicans were “very” confident their vote would be counted compared with 52% of independents and 45% of Democrats. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/258/who-votes-who-doesnt-and-why)