Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for November 16, 2022
The Number of the Day columns published on Ballotpedia reflect the views of the author.
November 16, 2022: Eighty-one percent (81%) of voters favor requiring voters to show photo ID. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 94% of Republicans and 73% of Democrats hold this view. Eighty-six percent (86%) support requiring states to clean voter rolls by removing people who have died or moved to a different state, 77% favor requiring all ballots to be received by Election Day, and 75% support requiring all voting machines to be made in the United States.
The survey also found that, of the four reforms, 48% of voters think that requiring photo ID would do the most to restore confidence in elections. Requiring states to clean voter rolls came second with 27%.
Methodology
The survey of 1,200 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on November 3-5, 2022. Fieldwork for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.
The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 2.8 percentage points.
Note: Neither Scott Rasmussen, ScottRasmussen.com, nor RMG Research, Inc. have any affiliation with Rasmussen Reports. While Scott Rasmussen founded that firm, he left nearly a decade ago and has had no involvement since that time.
Survey Question
Please let me know if you favor or oppose each of the following:
Requiring voters to show photo ID before casting a ballot
- 57%-Strongly favor
- 24%-Somewhat favor
- 8%-Somewhat oppose
- 4%-Strongly oppose
- 7%-Not sure
Requiring all mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day
- 52%-Strongly favor
- 25%-Somewhat favor
- 9%-Somewhat oppose
- 7%-Strongly oppose
- 7%-Not sure
Requiring states to clean voter rolls by removing people who have died or moved from the voter registration lists
- 65%-Strongly favor
- 21%-Somewhat favor
- 5%-Somewhat oppose
- 2%-Strongly oppose
- 7%-Not sure
Requiring all voting machines to be made in the United States
- 53%-Strongly favor
- 22%-Somewhat favor
- 6%-Somewhat oppose
- 2%-Strongly oppose
- 16%-Not sure
What would do most to restore confidence in elections?
- 48%-Requiring voters to show photo ID before casting a ballot
- 15%-Requiring all mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day
- 27%-Requiring states to clean voter rolls by removing people who have died or moved from the voter registration lists
- 10%-Requiring all voting machines to be made in the United States
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