Republicans are afraid of this…
But most Americans support this…
Two-thirds of Americans support voting by mail as an alternative to voting in person on Election Day during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll from USA TODAY and Suffolk University.
But while Democrats and independent voters overwhelmingly back vote-by-mail, the majority of Republican voters oppose it.
The poll found 65% of Americans support vote-by-mail as an alternative, a greater than 2-to-1 margin over the 32% of Americans who oppose the option. Three percent said they were undecided.
Findings differ dramatically by party. Eighty-four percent of Democratic voters said they support voting by mail and just 14% said they oppose it. Less than half of Republicans polled, 43%, said they support vote-by-mail as an alternative while more than half, 53%, were opposed.
Self-identified independent voters said they back vote-by-mail during the pandemic by a 66%-31% margin.
“I think it shows that people are open to alternative methods of voting, provided that they’re safe, and they don’t want to see democracy jeopardized in any way by the virus,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center….
Note…
There are more registered Independent’s that Democrat’s or Republican’s…