Rasmussen Poll: Three-Quarters Believe Election Observers are Important
According to the latest Rasmussen survey, 75% of voters said it is important for political parties to have observers in polling places to ensure election results are fair and accurate, including 55% who said it’s very important.
Only 21% said they do not believe election observers are important.
Majorities of every political category — 85% of Republicans, 67% of Democrats, and 74% of unaffiliated voters — said it’s at least somewhat important for parties to have observers in polling places to make sure election results are fair and accurate.
After becoming chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley said last week: “You’ve got to have observers and attorneys in the room when the votes are being cast, and when the votes are being counted.”
The Rasmussen survey also revealed that most voters believe the Republican Party has not been effective at winning elections, and agree with the importance of having election observers in polling places.
The survey found that 41% of likely U.S. voters said the Democratic Party is more effective at winning elections, compared to just 17% who said Republicans are more effective, while 33% said both parties are about equally effective at winning elections, and 10% were not sure.
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has been monitoring election fraud cases state by state for decades. Election fraud covers a range of activities — such as registering someone to vote and forging their signature, filling out an absentee ballot for someone who has died or moved away, voting while ineligible, or pretending to be someone else at the polling place and voting.
Heritage said there have been 1,465 proven cases of election fraud out of millions of votes cast — 1,264 of them resulted in criminal prosecutions and the remainder resulted in civil prosecutions, diversion programs, judicial findings, or official findings.
The Rasmussen survey of 1,129 likely voters was conducted April 8-10, by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
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