Poll: Most voters are confident in 2024 election results

Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The 2024 general election was run and administered well, a large majority of voters polled told the Pew Research Center.

Some 88% of voters said the 2024 elections were run well, with Pew Research Center polling showing 45% of voters said the elections were run somewhat well, and 43% said they were run very well.

"This stands in stark contrast to four years ago, when far fewer voters expressed confidence," the Pew Research Center said.

In 2020, only 59% of voters said the elections were run and administered well, with 24% saying they were run somewhat well and 35% very well.

"This year's rosier view of election administration is entirely driven by a shift in views among those who voted for Donald Trump for president," officials at the Pew Research Center said.

Republican voters, 93%, expressed more confidence than Democratic Party voters, 84%, in how the elections were run this year.

In 2020, only 21% of GOP voters said the elections were run and administered well versus 94% of voters who supported President Joe Biden and other Democratic Party candidates.

Although a significant percentage of voters for Vice President Kamala Harris were less confident in how the 2024 elections were run and administered than in 2020, 37% said they were run somewhat well, while 47% said they were run very well.

"It is not unusual in presidential elections for voters who supported the winning candidate to express more confidence in the outcome than those who supported the losing candidate," the Pew Research Center said, adding that the size gap in 2020 was "particularly large."

The polling also showed Republican voters are more likely than Democratic Party voters to trust the counts of ballots cast in person, while Democratic Party voters are more likely to trust mail-in ballot vote counts.

The poll showed most voters, 66%, are confident that ineligible voters were stopped from casting ballots, but only 45% of Trump voters expressed that confidence versus 88 percent of Harris voters.

The poll also showed Trump voters were more likely to vote on election day than Harris voters, who were more likely to vote by absentee or mail-in ballots.

The Pew Research Center polled 9,609 adults from Nov. 12-17, including 8,072 who said they voted in the Nov. 5 general election.