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CV NEWS FEED // The majority of Americans say they are happy with how the election was conducted and are confident in how the votes were counted this year, in contrast to much lower levels of confidence and satisfaction recorded after the 2020 election.
The Pew Research Center found that both Harris and Trump supporters had better views of the 2024 election than of that in 2020. Overall, 88% of voters were satisfied with the way this year’s election was conducted across the U.S., a new trend for American voters.
“While voters have long had highly positive views about election administration locally, that is not the case for evaluations of how elections were conducted across the country,” Pew reported.
In 2020, only 59% of overall voters were happy and confident in how the election was conducted nationally.
In 2024, 93% of Trump voters and 84% of Harris voters said they were happy and confident in the election’s integrity at the national level.
“This is a departure from both the 2020 and 2022 elections, when Democratic candidate voters were much more likely than Republican candidate voters to say that elections around the country were run and administered at least somewhat well,” Pew reported.
Pew also discovered a divide between voters’ support of different voting methods. Trump supporters in 2024 were far more likely to be confident in the accuracy of in-person voting (94%) than mail-in and absentee ballots (72%). Harris supporters also tended to support in-person voting (86%), but 78% still were confident in the accuracy of mailed or absentee votes.
Both parties changed positions on the types of voting between the 2020 and 2024 elections. In 2020, 64% of Trump supporters and 98% of Biden supporters were confident in ballots cast in-person, while 19% of Trump supporters and 95% of Biden supporters were confident in mailed or absentee ballots.
Pew found that of the two voting groups in 2024, Trump supporters were more likely to say that those who were not legally qualified to vote were likely able to vote in the election anyway (55%).
Pew reported, “As was the case before the election, an overwhelming majority of Harris supporters are confident that those not eligible to vote were prevented from casting ballots.”
Trump voters were more likely than Harris supporters to vote in-person either on or before Election Day (74% vs. 56%). Overall, however, voters were more likely to vote in-person rather than by mail (66% vs. 35%).
