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Will the next presidential election be “rigged” - the way one candidate says the 2020 vote was?
A new poll indicates most U.S. voters are at least skeptical. Many even think it happened last year in the midterm elections.
The Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday revealed 54% of likely voters think cheating is likely to affect the outcome of the next presidential election. But 41% do not think so.
In fact, three in ten believe cheating is “very likely” to have an impact, while 24% say it’s “not at all likely.”
The suspicion about the vote is high across party lines.
The Washington Examiner reports 69% of Republicans expect cheating next year. So do 46% of Democrats.
Several claims of cheating and fraud were made after the 2022 elections. The most high-profile
complaint may have been filed by Kari Lake, who says she was robbed of the Arizona Governor’s office.
The new poll finds 52% of likely voters believe cheating happened with the vote last year. That includes 41% of Democrats.
Knewz reported in early May that a similar Rasmussen Reports poll had similar numbers about cheating the 2020 presidential vote.
Voters also do not seem to be impressed with how authorities are responding to the cheating accusations.
The poll shows 74% of Republicans and 44% of Democrats say “state and federal officials are ignoring evidence of widespread election fraud.”
The Dallas Morning News reports Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill Tuesday making election fraud a felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
It was a misdemeanor for the past two years, in a switch approved by Republican state lawmakers.
Yet the effort to toughen election fraud sentences has critics. The Texas Civil Rights Project argues that cheating really is not a problem, while the new felony status could scare voters away.
The Rasmussen Reports survey on cheating was conducted between Wednesday, June 7 and last Sunday. It has a sampling error of three percentage points.