According to AJC Poll, 57% of Georgians are Confident in the Fairness of the 2024 Election

As the 2024 race for the White House gets underway, a slight majority of Georgia voters say they’re confident the election will be conducted fairly, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll.

The survey found that 57% of Georgians are at least somewhat confident in the integrity of the presidential election, and 56% are not in favor of switching to paper ballots that would need to be filled out by hand.

“If there were any voting inaccuracies, I doubt very seriously that Joe Biden would have won the state,” Michael Lee, an engineer from Mableton, told the Journal-Constitution. “The fact that the secretary of state (Brad Raffensperger) pushed back when Trump asked him to find additional votes, even though they’re in the same party, gave me a higher sense of security and confidence.”

Other voters the outlet spoke with said their trust in fair and accurate elections is still broken by former President Donald Trump’s allegations of voting irregularities in the 2020 election.

“To say I’m concerned would be an understatement,” Mike Thigpen, a pastor from Wrens, said. “This is a farce, a joke. What do we know about these Dominion voting machines? You put your vote in, it sends it off, and it comes back the way you want it to come back. How else would the Democratic Party win anything?”

According to the Journal-Constitution, the GOP has won nearly all statewide elections in the Peach State over the past 20 years, including all races in 2020 and 2022 conducted on Dominion machines except the presidential and Senate races.

As with previous polls since the 2020 election, the new survey’s results reflect wariness among conservative voters following former President Donald Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden. Liberals and moderates seemed more at ease.

Just 45% of conservative respondents expressed confidence that November’s election would be fair and accurate, compared with more than three-quarters of liberals and 63% of moderates.

Georgia’s touchscreen voting machine system prints out paper ballots which are then tabulated by ballot scanning machines. A federal trial on the security or vulnerability of the $107 million system is currently underway and the Georgia General Assembly is considering making changes to election laws.

Lawmakers have floated eliminating computer codes from printed ballots, as well as doing away with Dominion’s touchscreens and switching the state to hand-marked paper ballots instead.

“I don’t feel secure in any kind of system anymore,” Minerva Vasquez, of Dahlonega, told the Journal-Constitution. “Whatever they choose, they can try to put security on it, but one way or another, I don’t have confidence. I believe more the people who say the election was stolen than the people who say it wasn’t.”

The poll was conducted Jan. 3-11 and surveyed 1,007 registered Georgia voters. The margin of error is 3.1 percentage points.