Are you likely to vote? How are you going to vote? How confident are you that your vote will be counted? And will you trust the outcome when it happens?

Big questions! But thanks to a new Spectrum News/Ipsos Poll, we have a rough idea.*

Your questions answered here!

Five Things You Need to Know:

  1. Here in the Los Angeles DMA — which stands for designated market area — kind of technical speak for several counties all joined together, an area so huge, that is has around the same number of people in it as a small country like the Netherlands, according to our poll - 72% say they are likely to vote. Not bad! You’ll have to beat the Dutch though at 88%. Let’s hope we do!  
  2. So, how are you voting? As you’d expect the greatest number of people surveyed, nearly half at 49%, plan to vote by mail or absentee ballot. Whilst a quarter, 26%, prefer to do it in person; most of which will do so on the big day itself. But how confident are you that your vote will even be counted?
  3. According to our poll, that depends on how you vote. Drop off your ballot at an election office or polling place and 74% are confident their vote will be counted, versus 20% who aren’t. Compare that to 66% who think it will be counted if you mail it in, versus 29% — nearly a third — who think it won’t. But the highest number, 75%, believe it most likely to be counted if you show up on the big day and vote in-person.
  4. Perhaps the biggest question about voting from our exclusive poll is how likely are you to trust the outcome of the Presidential Election? Ready? At 63%, most respondents said they are likely to trust it, while less than a quarter of those surveyed are not. 
  5. So, the headline? A lot more people voting, largely by mail, generally nearly three-fourths of which believe their votes will be counted and nearly two-thirds of them will trust the final result. 

But of course this is just a poll and the only thing that really counts is that every one of us enacts our right set out in the Constitution to vote. Because that is truly what being a great American is all about.

 

 

 

*Poll stats based on LA DMA