“Biden Supporters More Likely Than Trump’s to Vote by Mail, Poll Shows; New Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey finds Democrats are more confident than Republicans that November results would be tallied accurately”

WSJ:

Supporters of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden are more likely than Trump supporters to say they will vote by mail and are more likely to trust the accuracy of November’s ballot count, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds, underscoring partisan differences over how the election should be conducted.

Some 47% of voters who back Mr. Biden, the former vice president, plan to vote by mail rather than in person, compared with 11% of Trump supporters.

By contrast, 66% of Trump voters say they plan to cast ballots in person on Election Day, the poll found, compared with 26% of Biden supporters.

The results suggest that the two parties, in large measure, will have different voting experiences, though voters’ plans could still change. The difference could also affect perceptions of which candidate is leading in the vote tally, since mailed ballots can take longer to count than in-person votes, and some election experts warn the winner might not be clear on Election Night.

“If the absentee ballots are favoring a different candidate than the one that was favored in the in-person voting, then, yes, we could see the victor change” in the course of vote-counting, said Stanford University law professor Nathaniel Persily….

Some 55% percent of Democrats but 36% of Republicans said they were confident the November results would be tallied accurately. The gap was even wider when voters were asked about votes cast by mail. Some 65% of Democrats but only 23% of Republicans said mailed ballots would be properly counted.

Among all voters, 45% said they believed the November results would be tallied accurately, with 45% saying they lacked confidence. Trust has declined from 2016, when a Journal/NBC News survey found that 59% said they had confidence that the presidential election results would be counted accurately.

Asked in the new survey about mailed ballots, 45% of voters said they had confidence in an accurate count, and 51% said they lacked confidence.

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