Voters Worried about Election Integrity. They Should Be

With Election Day less than a month away, the respected Gallup polling organization has some sobering news. Only 57 percent of Americans are very or somewhat confident that their votes this year will be accurately cast and counted. The percentage who say they are “not at all confident” in the vote is now 19 percent. As recently as 2008, that number was only 6 percent.

While there is a clear partisan breakdown in the responses, concerns about election integrity are nonetheless widespread. Seventy-four percent of Republicans, 47 percent of independents, and 21 percent of Democrats tell Gallup that “people using illegal or fraudulent means to cast invalid votes will be a problem.”

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With Election Day less than a month away, the respected Gallup polling organization has some sobering news. Only 57 percent of Americans are very or somewhat confident that their votes this year will be accurately cast and counted. The percentage who say they are “not at all confident” in the vote is now 19 percent. As recently as 2008, that number was only 6 percent.

While there is a clear partisan breakdown in the responses, concerns about election integrity are nonetheless widespread. Seventy-four percent of Republicans, 47 percent of independents, and 21 percent of Democrats tell Gallup that “people using illegal or fraudulent means to cast invalid votes will be a problem.”