But here’s a potentially more significant finding. As Scott Clement and Emily Guskin note, the new Post/ABC poll also finds that worries about voter fraud have declined among American voters by 10 percentage points, even as confidence that the votes will be counted accurately has risen by 12 points:
Fewer than four in 10 voters now say voter fraud occurs very or somewhat often (37 percent), down from 47 percent in early September….In a separate question, the share of voters saying they do not have confidence votes will be counted accurately dipped from 33 to 28 percent, while the percentage saying they are “very confident” rose from 31 to 43 percent.
Of course, a large majority of Trump voters — seven in 10 — say voter fraud occurs at least some of the time, and 34 percent say it occurs very often. And half of them say they are not too confident or not at all confident that votes will be counted accurately across the country. But confidence among Democrats is rising along with that of the broader public: The share of Dems who are very confident in the vote counting is up to 70 percent, while only a tiny fraction of them now thinks voter fraud happens at least some of the time.