Election confidence at all-time low, just 59% trust votes will be ‘accurately counted’

Published October 8, 2020 12:14pm ET



Amid new reports that post office mailboxes have been vandalized, mail-in ballot applications shredded, and the dead receiving ballots, this shouldn’t be a big surprise: less than 6-in-10 have confidence that votes will be “accurately counted” in next month’s election.

In fact, the latest Gallup survey said that confidence matched an all-time low, driven by high fears among GOP voters, which the survey blames on President Trump’s warning against mail-in voting.

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