A new poll found that at least 60% of people support early voting, automatic registration and absentee ballots.
New polling shows that a majority of Americans support measures to make voting easier.
A Gallup poll published on Friday surveyed voters on a number of issues related to voting. By and large, voters said they supported reforms to make the process more accessible — and generally reported opposition to putting more restrictions on the right to vote. “With the midterm elections less than a month away, large majorities of Americans favor three measures meant to make voting easier,”Seventy-eight percent of Americans said that early voting should be allowed, the Gallup poll found, while only 22 percent said they opposed early voting. Sixty-five percent of voters also support automatic registration, meaning that when a person conducts business with a state government entity, their voter registration records automatically update with that action.
Conservative voting “reforms” were rejected by most of the poll’s respondents. Only 39 percent of Americans believe that voters should be purged from registration rolls if they don’t vote for five years, versus 60 percent who oppose the idea. Similarly, only 39 percent said there should be greater limitations on the number of drop boxes or locations for mailing in absentee ballots, while 59 percent said they would oppose more limitations.
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