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Quiz: Voting 2020

April 19, 2020

Does vote-by-mail mean more fraud? And does it benefit Republicans or Democrats – or neither?

In a 2018 survey, well before the coronavirus pandemic, two-thirds of Americans said that:
- Citizens should be required to vote in national elections
- Everything should be done to make it easy for every citizen to vote
- People should have to prove they want to vote by registering ahead of each election
- People should only be allowed to vote absentee in certain circumstances
A poll conducted earlier this month found that ____ percent of Americans want the government to require mail-in ballots as an option for voting in the November 2020 election.
- 49
- 54
- 61
- 72
Political scientists say that mail voting hurts Democrats and helps Republicans in elections.
- True
- False
Studies of vote-by-mail in Colorado and Utah, which both have all-mail elections, found that it increased turnout among:
- Naturalized citizens
- Parents
- Third party voters
- Voters with no party affiliation
Election officials must count absentee ballots:
- As long as the ballots were submitted according to state law
- If a race is close enough that absentee votes could affect the outcome.
- If the ballots were cast for a major party candidate
- In some states but not in all
An analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice found that the rate of ___________ in the U.S. is between 0.0003 and 0.0025 percent.
- Voter fraud
- Uncounted absentee ballots
- Spoiled ballots
- Voters turned away because they lacked photo identification
Experts say that there is _______________ fraud in mail voting than in-person voting.
- Much less
- Slightly less
- Slightly more
- Much more
In 2018, the North Carolina state elections board overturned the results of a Congressional election, following allegations that:
- Absentee ballots went missing and were never counted
- Hundreds of voters were improperly removed from the rolls
- A political operative had improperly collected and tampered with ballots
- Some voters had cast more than one ballot
Could the 2020 general election be postponed?
- Yes, if the president declared a national state of emergency.
- Yes, if Congress and the president agreed to change federal law.
- Yes, if two-thirds of governors agreed.
- No, the date of the election is established by the Constitution.
Fewer than half of people say they have a good or very great deal of trust and confidence in the wisdom of the American people in making political decisions.
- True
- False

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