Do most Americans support requiring "ID" to vote?
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Majority of Americans Continue to Back Expanded Early Voting, Voting by Mail, Voter ID
58% favor allowing voters to cast their ballots by mail, but support remains much lower among Republicans than Democrats
By Steven Shepard, Joseph Copeland, Shanay Gracia and Jocelyn Kiley, Pew Research
President Donald Trump’s recent pledge to “lead a movement” to end mail-in voting comes as a 58% majority of Americans favor allowing any voter to cast their ballot by mail if they want to.
But Democrats and Republicans continue to hold starkly different views: Today, 83% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents support no-excuse voting by mail, while 68% of Republicans and Republican leaners oppose it.
Several other proposals related to the U.S. electoral system win widespread support across the political spectrum, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 3,554 adults conducted Aug. 4-10, prior to Trump’s announcement.
Among the most-supported proposals:
Requiring electronic voting machines to print a paper backup of a voter’s ballot (84% in favor)
Requiring all voters to show government-issued photo identification (83%)
Making early, in-person voting available for at least two weeks prior to the election (80%)
Making Election Day a federal holiday (74%)
Each of these draws support from majorities in both partisan coalitions.
Of the 10 proposals included in the survey, just two are more opposed by Americans than favored:
52% oppose banning groups from collecting completed ballots from a large number of voters to return them to election officials. (This is sometimes called “ballot harvesting” by opponents of the practice and it is currently illegal in about half of states.)
56% oppose removing people from registration lists if they haven’t voted recently or responded to efforts to confirm their registration and address.
Automatic voter registration, same-day registration, early voting and voting by mail
In addition to making in-person early voting available for two weeks and mail-in voting available to any registered voter who wants it, about six-in-ten Americans favor automatic voter registration for eligible citizens (59%) and same-day voter registration (58%).
As has long been the case, there is more support for each of these proposals among Democrats than Republicans.
77% of Democrats and 42% of Republicans support automatic voter registration.
Similarly, 72% of Democrats and 43% of Republicans favor allowing registration at the polls on Election Day.
The partisan gap over in-person early voting is narrower, and support has grown among Republicans since last year. Today, majorities in both parties (89% of Democrats, 71% of Republicans) favor at least two weeks of early, in-person voting.
In contrast, there is a wide gap of 51 percentage points in partisans’ support for mail-in voting. And this gap is substantially wider than it was five years ago – the result of a steep drop in support among Republicans.
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