Do Americans support voting by mail to limit the spread of coronavirus infections?

A survey conducted in April 2020 found that 78% of Americans nationally support ensuring all citizens can vote by mail to limit COVID-19 infections. Support remained high across the United States, with more than three quarters of the public supporting the measure in 46 states. The lowest levels of support were found in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, while the highest were in states that already utilized vote-by-mail systems, such as Hawaii, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and California.

• Nationally, 78% of Americans support the option for all U.S. citizens to vote by mail in the November 2020 election to limit the spread of coronavirus infections.
• Public support for voting by mail is high across most of the country, with over 75% support in 46 states. The range of support across all 50 states varied by no more than 9 percentage points.
• The lowest levels of support for voting by mail were recorded in Kentucky (73%), and Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi (each 74%).
• States that had already implemented vote-by-mail systems prior to the pandemic showed some of the highest support levels, including Hawaii (82%), Colorado (78%), and Washington, Oregon, and California (each 80%).

APA

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (2020). Do Americans support voting by mail to limit the spread of coronavirus infections? https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/do-americans-support-voting-by-mail-to-limit-the-spread-of-coronavirus-infections/

Chicago

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Do Americans support voting by mail to limit the spread of coronavirus infections? 2020. https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/do-americans-support-voting-by-mail-to-limit-the-spread-of-coronavirus-infections/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{yaleprogramonclimatechangecommunication2020americans, author = {{Yale Program on Climate Change Communication}}, title = {{Do Americans support voting by mail to limit the spread of coronavirus infections?}}, institution = {Yale Program on Climate Change Communication}, year = {2020}, month = jul, url = {https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/do-americans-support-voting-by-mail-to-limit-the-spread-of-coronavirus-infections/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }