Voters & Voting

The share of Americans voting by mail has risen in recent presidential election cycles, but there is variation from one state to another.

More than 11 million Asian Americans will be able to vote this year, making up nearly 5% of the eligible voters in the United States.

Overall, 70% of U.S. adults favor allowing any voter to vote by mail if they want to.

Older adults tend to account for large shares of both poll workers and voters in general elections in the United States.

Nearly seven-in-ten registered voters say postponing state primary elections has been a necessary step to address the coronavirus outbreak.

40% of U.S. adults prefer to keep the current system in which the candidate who receives the most Electoral College vote wins the election.

California has more immigrant eligible voters (5.5 million) than any other state, followed by New York, Florida, Texas and New Jersey.

Black Democrats have consistently seen themselves as moderate. They are also highly religious and more likely to say racism is a very big problem.

Since 2000, the size of the immigrant electorate has nearly doubled. More than 23 million U.S. immigrants will be eligible to vote in the 2020 presidential election.

Most Latino registered voters (71%) say they want government to be more involved in solving the nation’s problems.