A majority of American adults say they are not confident that the November elections will be conducted in a fair and equal way, data from the NBC/ Survey Monkey Weekly Tracking Poll says.
Fifty-five percent of American adults want to allow all Americans to vote by mail in the fall, and 55 percent of adults say they’re very or somewhat likely to mail-in their vote in November.
However, when broken down by party, most Republicans express concerns about changing laws to expand mail-in-voting. Just 23 percent of Republican and Republican-leaners strongly or somewhat favor those changes, and 33 percent of them say they are very or somewhat likely to cast their vote by mail in November.
Meanwhile 86 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaners want to expand vote-by mail and 79 percent say they are either very or somewhat likely to mail their ballot in this fall. Democrats have promoted access to mail-in voting since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden called for every state to allow voters to vote by mail inbipartisan concern about the U.S. Postal ServicePresident Trump’s approval numbers remain unchanged in the NBC|SurveyMonkey Poll.
conducted August 3-9, 2020 among a national sample of 44,601 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. Data have been weighted for age, race, sex, education, and geography using the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to reflect the demographic composition of the United States age 18 and over.
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