Gallup: Only 1 in 4 Americans Very Confident Votes Will Be Counted Accurately

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Gallup: Only 1 in 4 Americans Very Confident Votes Will Be Counted Accurately

By E&P Staff

Published: October 27, 2006 9:55 AM ET

NEW YORK Gallup reports today, less than two weeks from the midterm elections, that a new poll finds that only about one in four Americans are "very confident" that votes across the country will be accurately cast and counted and that workers at voting facilities will be capable of resolving any problems. "The public places equal trust in electronic or computerized ballots and paper ballots to correctly record its votes this year," Gallup relates.

"Republicans and Democrats differ in their overall confidence in the country's voting system, with Republicans much more likely than Democrats to express confidence in the accuracy of the vote counts, in the workers at polling facilities, and in the trustworthiness of electronic ballots."

The overall number expressing a high degree of confidence, in the poll taken Oct. 20-22, is 28%, with 4 in 10 Republicans very confident versus only 17% of Democrats. Republicans also express more faith in electronic ballots than Democrats.

The confidence level is about the same as in 2004, Gallup reports. Voters have more confidence in their local polling places than the national picture.

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[Warpy]

1. The good news is that 75% also know who is doing the stealing

and that means they know the GOP has degenerated into a criminal organization engaged in interstate racketeering.

[Land Shark]

2. Only 45% are very confident Bush won fair and square in 2004

according to the August 2006 Zogby poll that Michael Collins and i commissioned.

People do not/will not have equal confidence in paper and electronic ballots once they realize that electronic ballots are counted in secrecy.

92% support the right to watch votes being counted and to obtain information about votes being counted. That is a very strong number that will destroy this "equality" between paper and electronic once the public becomes aware of it.