While Democrats have stayed steady on the issue, Republican confidence in the vote has fallen dramatically as former President Trump spent much of the past year making baseless and false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, NBCNews poll finds.
Two-thirds of all registered voters, 66 percent, say they are confident their vote will be counted accurately, down from 85 percent in October 2020. And 29 percent say they are not confident that their vote will be counted accurately in the future, compared to 11 percent who said the same a year ago.
There’s been a slight uptick in distrust among independents, too — from 84 percent confident and 13 percent not confident in October 2020 to 76 percent confident and 22 percent not confident now. Overall, 58 percent of adults believe Biden was legitimately elected, while 38 percent say he was not. Majorities of most demographic groups believe in the legitimacy of Biden's election. But just 35 percent of rural voters, 42 percent of whites without a college degree and 21 percent of those not vaccinated against Covid-19 say Biden's election was legitimate.
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