Eighty-three percent (83%) of Pennsylvania voters say it’s important to reform Pennsylvania’s voting laws before the next election. A Political IQ survey found that just 11% disagree.
Those totals include 63% who say election law reform is Very Important and only 3% who say it is Not at All Important.
There’s also strong support for many specific reforms:
- 88% agree that, prior to the election, government agencies should clean the voter registration files and remove the names of all who have moved or died.
- 75% strongly approve of requiring all mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day.
- 68% think government agencies should be required to report the vote totals from all ballots on Election Night.
- 88% believe both Republican and Democratic party officials should be allowed in the room for every step of the ballot collection and ballot counting procedures.
- 75% say all voters who cast their ballot in person should be required to show a photo ID before voting.
- For those who mail in their ballot, 58% believe they should they required to include a copy of their photo ID.
- 56% want ballot harvesting to be outlawed.
Additionally, 69% want mail-in ballots sent only to those who request them. Twenty-seven percent (27%) believe they should be sent to all voters.
Methodology
The online survey of 1,000 Registered Voters in Pennsylvania was conducted by Scott Rasmussen from November 16-19, 2020. Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Respondents were selected from a list of Registered Voters and through a process of Random Digital Engagement. Certain quotas were applied and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, and political party to reasonably reflect the state’s population of Registered Voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population. Among the respondents who voted in the presidential election, 50% voted for Biden, 46% for Trump, and 3% for some other candidate. The actual vote count in Pennsylvania shows Biden at 50%, Trump at 49%, and Libertarian Jo Jorgensen at 1%. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.