When a poll of Americans finds that only about a third of the electorate has a high level of confidence in the accuracy of the vote count, Russia's disinformation is winning.
That is precisely the case with a new AP-NORC poll released Tuesday, the results of which show another third expressing only moderate confidence in the integrity of the vote count, and the final third expressing little confidence.
Concerns about the integrity of the election system range from accurate vote counts to fraud and voter suppression to manipulation of voters. On vote counts, only 28% of Democrats felt confident, while 46% of Republicans shared that view.
On concerns about voter suppression and fraud, Democrats and Republicans are almost polar opposites, with 65% of Democrats viewing voter suppression as a major problem and 67% of Republicans saying the same of voter fraud. As a matter fact, there's no evidence to suggest widespread and systemic voter fraud is a problem; it's simply another GOP conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers have indeed worked feverishly over the past couple of decades to disenfranchise both voters of color and young people, voting blocs that skew disproportionately pro-Democratic.
When it comes to foreign interference in U.S. elections, Democrats express far more concern than Republicans, with roughly two-thirds of Democratic voters worrying about election system tampering, voter manipulation, and influence on the the candidates themselves.