Voters & Voting

Our analysis of verified voters examines what 2016 voters and nonvoters did in the 2018 midterm elections and offers a detailed portrait of the demographic composition and vote choices of the 2018 electorate.

Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about the ease of voting and the broader integrity of the 2020 presidential election.

About six-in-ten registered voters in the five U.S. states where elections are conducted entirely by mail expect voting to be easy.

Americans are now more likely to expect foreign election interference than they were in October 2018, when 67% expected it.

In every U.S. presidential election dating back to 1984, women reported having turned out to vote at slightly higher rates than men.

With less than three months until Election Day, Joe Biden has an advantage over Donald Trump among registered voters. But support for Trump is much stronger.

The term Latinx has emerged in recent years as a gender-neutral alternative to the pan-ethnic terms Latino, Latina and Hispanic. However, awareness of Latinx is relatively low among the population it is meant to describe.

Neither party nets an overall advantage from the 9% of voters who have switched since 2018.

As the nation’s economy contracted at a record rate in recent months, the group’s unemployment rate rose sharply, particularly among Hispanic women, and remains higher among Hispanic workers than U.S. workers overall.

65% of Americans say the option to vote early or absentee should be available to any voter without requiring a documented reason.