Survey data from Pew Research has revealed that Americans overwhelmingly want voter ID laws, paper ballots, early voting, and election day holidays.
A massive 81 percent of respondents said they favor requiring people to show government-issued photo identification to vote, and 82 percent said they favor requiring paper ballot backups for electronic voting machines. Seventy-two percent of those polled said they were in favor of making Election Day a national holiday, while 76 percent say early voting should be available for two weeks prior to Election Day.
The survey also revealed that Americans are far more divided along partisan lines when it comes to controversial voting measures such as ballot harvesting and mail-in voting. Eighty-four percent of Democrats are in favor of allowing any voter to vote by mail if they desire, compared to only 27 percent of Republicans. Furthermore, only 41 percent of Democrats are in favor of banning ballot harvesting compared to 56 percent of Republicans.
Seventy-nine percent of Democrats believe that all eligible citizens should be automatically registered to vote, compared with only 38 percent of Republicans. A similar divide exists when it comes to same-day voter registration at the polls, which 76 percent of Democrats support and 39 percent of Republicans oppose.
The survey, conducted between January 16th and 21st, 2024, quizzed 5,140 U.S. adults, limiting the margin of error to just 1.7 percentage points.
