{"id":272899,"date":"2025-08-22T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=272899"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:58:16","slug":"majority-of-americans-continue-to-back-expanded-early-voting-voting-by-mail-voter-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2025\/08\/22\/majority-of-americans-continue-to-back-expanded-early-voting-voting-by-mail-voter-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Americans Continue to Back Expanded Early Voting, Voting by Mail, Voter ID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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A ballot drop-off box in Denver on March 25, 2024. (Marc Piscotty\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
How we did this<\/summary>\n

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how Americans view voting policies and procedures in the United States. For this analysis, we surveyed 3,554 adults from Aug. 4 to 10, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviews were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education, presidential vote (among voters) and other factors. Read more about the ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the questions used for this report<\/a>, the topline<\/a> and the survey methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s recent pledge<\/a> to \u201clead a movement\u201d to end mail-in voting comes as a 58% majority of Americans favor allowing any voter to cast their ballot by mail if they want to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But Democrats and Republicans continue to hold starkly different views: Today, 83% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents support no-excuse voting by mail, while 68% of Republicans and Republican leaners oppose<\/em> it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several other proposals related to the U.S. electoral system win widespread support across the political spectrum, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 3,554 adults conducted Aug. 4-10, prior to Trump\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the most-supported proposals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n