Overall, 70 percent of respondents, including Democrats and Republicans, said they favor allowing any voter to cast a ballot by mail.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly voiced his strong opposition to expanding access to voting by mail ahead of the November election, but Republicans appear to be about evenly split over the issue.by the Pew Research Center, the results of which were published Tuesday, shows that 49 percent of Republicans support allowing all voters to cast their ballots by mail, while 51 percent oppose the option.
Overall, 70 percent of respondents said they favor allowing any voter to cast a ballot by mail. The Pew survey also found that 69 percent of respondents backed automatically registering all eligible citizens to vote. Among Democrats, 84 percent favored the idea of automatic registration, while a slim majority of Republicans supported the option.
Making it easier for Americans to vote by mail has been discussed more urgently during the coronavirus pandemic. Activists have argued that it is unwise to encourage people to visit often crowded polling centers amid fears of infection. Despite a significant majority of Americans, and about half of Republicans, supporting the expansion of vote-by-mail options, Trump has strongly criticized the move.
"Mail ballots, they cheat," Trump said earlier this month, without citing any evidence."Mail ballots are very dangerous for this country because of cheaters. They go collect them. They are fraudulent in many cases. They have to vote. They should have voter ID, by the way." Notably, Trump has voted by mail at least twice in his life. The president cast an absentee ballot from Washington, D.C., during the 2018 midterm elections and again in the Florida primary in March.Read more
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