For the Great Fanfare in 2021, the Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced HR 1 – which were planned, inter alia, to expand voting rights and access. While the Constitution grants the power to prescribe the time, place and manner of elections for the federal office, Congress can change or prevent state regulations. The bill passed the body in a vote and proceeded with the Senate, where it was killed by a democratic background. The legislation was an extensive attempt to federations many electoral responsibilities that are traditionally intended for states. To receive only one timely and relevant example, a HR 1 layout would have banned Gerrymanders – demand States for the creation of independent remodeling committees.
Now Donald Trump has proposed some sweeping changes, writing to social media that it would “lead a movement to get rid of mail ballots”. In addition, the president wants to target what he sees in his words as “extremely” inaccurate “, very expensive and serious voting machines.” He wants to establish a universal voter ID. While the details of an executive order or legislative impulse have not been announced, the president’s plan to prohibit the vote by mail is unlikely to receive significant public support for a variety of reasons. Americans trust their local electoral officers and they like ease. They have generally applauded efforts to extend the vote, although there are deforming differences. Americans also know the dangers associated with this method of voting.
Polls on this issue lead us back decades. In 1959, 88% told Gallup that they believed people with disabilities or serious injuries should be able to vote by mail. Another question that he asked if entrepreneurs should be able to do so, and 79% said they should. Polls do not pay close attention to the postal vote by the mid -1990s, around the time Oregon examined and adopted a universal vote by mail. A Pew poll since 1996 found that 48% believed that everyone should be able to vote by mail, while 47% disagreed.
Polls increased their work during Covid and raised questions about the possibility of fraudulent voters if my vote was expanded. A April 2020 Gallup Poll He found that 64% were favored by allowing all voters to vote by mail in the 2020 elections. Forty -nine percent in a broader question said there would be more fraud if all voters vote by mail, about 29% of the same amount and 20% less. 2020 late summer Poll He found that 25% believed that voter fraud was a major problem with mail vote, 27% of a secondary, 27% was not a problem at all and 20% was not sure.
Pew asked self -determined voters for their confidence that their votes were measured accurately for many years. In 2020, when these Asked by people about personal vote and separately, absent or by mail vote, 57% were confident that postal or absences were voted on as planned. In The publication of electoral publication 202475% of self -determined voters, from 57% in 2020, said the votes of those who voted were absent or by mail were calculated as provided. In the poll, 90% felt confident that the votes of those who voted in person were calculated as planned and 92% gave this answer to their own vote.
In this poll, as well as the previous ones, Republican voters’ belief that the votes voted by mail had been measured (72%) were almost as high as the democratic reaction of voters (78%). Democratic voters’ answers reflected a lower degree of confidence than they said in the 2020 (95%) Pew poll after their party’s presidential victory. Republican voters expressed more confidence in 2024 than in 2020, when only 19% gave this answer. In the new 2025 poll, Republicans were much less enthusiastic (32%) than Democrats (83%) to allow anyone to vote by mail. To voting In several electoral policies, 58% were strongly favored, allowing any voter to vote by mail if he wants. 58% decreased by the 70% that gave this answer in April 2020 during the pandemic.
For the overwhelming majority of Americans, voting is easy because we have done it. At least in terms of public opinion, post -mail vote is here to stay. The Americans have high confidence in local electoral officials and their support for absence or by mail reflects this confidence. They like not only ease, but the opportunity to make the choice of how to vote themselves. And Trump.
