It's a dramatic spike in fears about voting from the 2018 midterm election when only 15% of voters said they anticipated difficulties.
WASHINGTON — As the U.S. battles a global pandemic and President Donald Trump fights widespread mail-in voting, nearly half of registered voters, 49%, expect to have difficulties casting a ballot in the November presidential election.
There's a deep partisan divide on the question. Sixty percent of voters who support Democratic challenger Joe Biden said they believe voting will be difficult in November, compared with 40% who said it would be easy. In 2018, only 17% of Democratic voters anticipated voting difficulties and 83% predicted it would be easy.
"There's more of a partisan split than there was two years ago," Kiley said, noting that Democrats were also more likely than Republicans to say the pandemic might disrupt voting in a poll the Pew Research Center took in the spring. Trump has claimed without evidence that"universal mail-voting" will lead to more voter fraud. In opposing funds for the U.S. Postal Service that Democrats have included in a coronavirus relief bill, Trump noted Thursday it would starve the agency of money tied to the expected surge in mail-in ballots.
Two-thirds of Trump's supporters, 66%, said they support Trump"strongly," while only 46% of Biden supporters said they support the former vice president"strongly."A Monmouth University Poll Eighty-percent of voters who back Trump would rather vote in-person, either on Election Day or earlier . Just 17% said they prefer to vote by mail. But a majority of Biden supporters, 58%, said they prefer to vote by mail in the presidential election.
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