Nearly 2 in 5 voters in the United States do not believe the country’s elections are fair, according to new poll, underscoring the growing distrust about America’s two centuries-old democracy.
The NPR/Marist poll published Monday also found that nearly half of respondents lacked faith that votes would be counted accurately in the upcoming midterm congressional elections.
Nonwhites, women and Democratic Party voters all report significantly greater doubts about the fairness of elections compared to white men and Republicans.
Overall, 47 percent of all poll respondents said they think it is either “likely” or “very likely” that all votes will actually not be counted in the November election.
“On a whole this is a pretty lousy report card on the state of American elections,” said Dr. Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll.
On the general question about how much people…