Voter ID requirements generally poll quite well and support for public financing can vary greatly based on question wording. The questions also didn’t spotlight Republicans’ preferred arguments - for instance, Republicans would stress concerns that same-day and automatic registration could allow ineligible people to vote, which would likely make some respondents more concerned about these proposals.Īnd other parts of the bill, like its limits to voter ID laws (it would allow voters without ID to submit a sworn statement vouching for their identity) and its creation of a public financing system to match small donations, may be more controversial. (Forty-seven percent of respondents said they supported doing this, and 42 percent said they opposed it.) Indeed, the one question that mentioned the parties - about whether Democrats should change Senate rules so they could pass redistricting reform without Republican support - was much more closely divided. The poll presented these questions without partisan cues about which party supports which proposal.

Sign up to receive our newsletter each Friday. Vox’s German Lopez is here to guide you through the Biden administration’s burst of policymaking. More than 60 percent of respondents supported requiring nonpartisan redistricting commissions, a 15-day early voting period for all federal elections, same-day registration for all eligible voters, automatic voter registration for all eligible voters, and giving every voter the option to vote by mail. More than 80 percent of respondents said they supported preventing foreign interference in elections, limiting the influence of money in politics, and modernizing election infrastructure to increase election security. The poll surveyed 1,138 likely voters nationally between April 16 and April 19, and it finds that much of what the 800-page bill claims to do is overwhelmingly popular. “When presented with a very neutral description” of it, “people were generally supportive,” the adviser said.Ī new Data for Progress poll conducted as part of a partnership with Vox backs up that assessment. Back in March, the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer obtained a recording of an adviser to Mitch McConnell privately bemoaning, on a call with conservative group leaders, that Democrats’ big voting rights bill, the For the People Act, polled quite well.

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