52% of American adults plan to cast early votes this year, the NBC/SurveyMonkey Weekly Tracking Poll says.
, the share of voters who vote in person on Election Day has declined steadily over the past decade. From 2004 to 2016, the number of Americans who voted early more than doubled, from 10.2 million early ballots to 24.1 million ballots. In 2016, about 4 in 10 people cast their ballots through early voting, absentee voting or voting by mail.A majority of adults also continue to favor changing election laws to allow everyone to vote by mail.
However, a majority of Americans also remain doubtful that the November election will be conducted in a fair and equal way. Fifty-seven percent of Americans say they are not too confident or not at all confident that the election will be conducted fairly, while 41 percent say they are very or somewhat confident in the equity of the election. In, 55 percent of Americans said they were not at all or not too confident in the election's fairness.
Looking ahead to November's get-out-the-vote race, 81 percent of American adults say they are registered to vote where they live, while 10 percent say they aren't. And the party breakdown shows parity on the issue. Eighty-eight percent of Republicans and those who lean Republican are registered to vote at their current addresses, while 87 percent of Democrats and those who lean Democratic say the same.
Sixty percent of independents say they are registered to vote where they live, while 21 percent of independents say they aren't. Just 8 percent of Republicans and those who lean Republican and 7 percent of Democrats and those who lean Democratic say they aren't registered to vote.. In this week's tracking poll, 44 percent of adults say they strongly or somewhat approve of his job performance, while 54 percent disapprove.
Data come from a set of SurveyMonkey online polls conducted Aug. 24-30, 2020, among a national sample of 37,386 adults in the U.S. Respondents were selected from the more than 2 million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day. The modeled error estimate for this survey is plus or minus 1.0 percentage points.
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