Poll: Majority supports reforming electoral vote count law – By Brittany Gibson (Politico) / Sept 28, 2022
A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll finds voters want to strengthen the 19th-century law Trump tried to exploit after the 2020 election.
Congress is preparing to rewrite the 135-year-old presidential election certification law, and most American voters think that’s a good idea.
A majority of voters favor making it harder to override future election results, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. Fifty-two percent of respondents said it should be harder for Congress to override presidential election results, and 53 percent said it should be more difficult for state governments to do so, the poll shows.
In addition to showing support for reforming Congress’ counting of electoral votes, the poll also recorded a downtick in President Joe Biden’s approval rating and showed Republicans narrowing the generic congressional ballot ahead of the November midterm elections.
Following the Trump-fueled riot at the Capitol and the promotion of legal theories to stop Congress’ certification of the 2020 presidential election results, legislators in both chambers took up reviewing the electoral count process to remove uncertainty about how the Electoral College votes are tallied.
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