GalleryDeclining confidence in election results may be depressing voter turnout
Both the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 midterm elections saw accusations of vote rigging by politicians. Drawing on new survey results, Douglas Hess explores voters’ confidence in the electoral process. He finds that about half of those surveyed have concerns about or were not confident in vote counts, with white conservatives outside the south, non-whites across the country, and, Black citizens in the south most likely […]
