Loading ...Election Integrity: Many Voters Still Don’t Trust Voting Machines
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Concerns remain high that electronic voting machines could be “hacked” remotely, and most Republican voters still suspect the 2020 election was stolen.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 63% of Likely U.S. Voters are concerned that electronic voting systems may allow votes to be changed remotely through Internet connections during voting, including 33% who are Very Concerned. Thirty-two percent (32%) aren’t concerned about possible remote manipulation of electronic voting systems, including 12% who are Not At All Concerned.
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President Donald Trump has made election integrity a focus of his second-term agenda. Forty-six percent (46%) of voters consider it likely that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election that made Joe Biden president was affected by cheating, including 27% who say it’s Very Likely. Forty-eight percent (48%) don’t believe it’s likely that cheating affected the 2020 election, including 33% who think it’s Not At All Likely. Among Republican voters, 68% believe it’s at least somewhat likely that the 2020 presidential election was affected by cheating, a belief shared by 26% of Democrats and 45% of voters not affiliated with either major party.
The survey of 1,176 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on November 23-25, 2025 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Among all Likely Voters who consider it Very Likely that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election was affected by cheating, 90% are at least somewhat concerned that electronic voting systems may allow votes to be changed remotely through Internet connections during voting.Thirty-six percent (36%) think electronic voting machines make it easier to cheat in elections, while 22% say electronic voting machines make it harder to cheat. Thirty-one percent (31%) believe electronic voting machines do not make much difference in terms of cheating in elections, and 11% are not sure.
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Among those who think electronic voting machines make it easier to cheat in elections, 73% consider it at least somewhat likely that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election was affected by cheating.
Forty-six percent (46%) of Republicans, 30% of Democrats and 33% of unaffiliated voters believe electronic voting machines make it easier to cheat in elections.
Seventy-three percent (73%) of Republicans, 56% of Democrats and 62% of unaffiliated voters are at least somewhat concerned that electronic voting systems may allow votes to be changed remotely through Internet connections during voting.
Slightly more men (39%) than women voters (33%) say electronic voting machines make it easier to cheat in elections.
Sixty-percent (60%) of whites, 76% of black voters, 63% of Hispanics and 64% of other minorities are at least somewhat concerned that electronic voting systems may allow votes to be changed remotely through Internet connections during voting. Black voters are most likely to think that electronic voting machines make it easier to cheat in elections.
Sixty-two percent (62%) of voters in their 40s believe it’s likely that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election was affected by cheating.
Breaking down the electorate by income categories, voters earning more than $100,000 are more likely to say electronic voting machines make it easier to cheat in elections.
Among those who voted for Trump in last year’s presidential election, 77% consider it at least somewhat likely that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election was affected by cheating, but 63% of Kamala Harris voters say it’s Not At All Likely that cheating affected the outcome in 2020.
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