Americans are generally confident that this fall’s presidential election will be conducted fairly and accurately.
Yet Republicans and those who lean toward the GOP are far less confident of this than Democrats and Democratic leaners, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted July 1-7, 2024.
Overall, 61% of Americans say they are very or somewhat confident the election will be conducted fairly and accurately. These views have changed little since 2022 and 2020.
The public is more confident that all citizens who want to vote this fall will be able to. About three-quarters of Americans (76%) say they are confident about this, a modest increase since 2020.Currently, Democrats are 30 percentage points more likely than Republicans to express confidence that the presidential election will be conducted fairly (77% vs. 47%). However, in April 2020, as the coronavirus outbreak was spreading in the U.S., Republicans were more confident than Democrats that the election would be conducted fairly and accurately (75% vs. 46%).
At that time, Democrats were far more likely than Republicans to believe that the COVID-19 pandemic would disrupt voting. Eight-in-ten Democrats said this was likely, compared with about half of Republicans.
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