Section 5: Election Security

Q5.1: Please answer the following questions:

How often does anyone, including friends or family, ask you which candidate you prefer or voted for?

If a friend or family member asks you who you prefer in an election, how often do you name a candidate?

If you tell a close friend or family member which candidate you prefer, how often do you tell the truth?

Ballots are changed by election workers.

Elected officials make rules that favor one party or another.

Q5.2: Did anyone do any of the following? Please select all that apply.

Q5.3: What was the result of this interaction?

Q5.4: Who tried to make you vote the way you didn’t want to?

Q5.5: According to the law, which candidate you vote for is supposed to be kept secret unless you tell someone. Even so, how easy or hard do you think it would be for politicians, union officials, or the people you work for to find out who you voted for, even if you told no one?

Q5.6: Do you think elected officials can access voting records and figure out who a voter has voted for?

Q5.7: Have you personally witnessed what you believe to be election or voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election?

Q5.8: Which of the following situations did you personally observe in the 2020 Presidential Election? Please select all that apply.

Q5.9: Below is a list of possible illegal election activities that may or may not take place in your state. How often you think each event occurs?

Voted absentee ballots are stolen and thrown away after being submitted

Someone intimidates a voter into voting for someone they didn’t want to

Someone steals an absentee ballot, changes the ballot, and casts it.

Someone bribes someone or pays them money for their vote

Someone intimidates a voter into not voting

Someone being denied the opportunity to vote who is an eligible voter by a poll worker or other election official

Voting machines fail to record votes correctly

Q5.10: Do you support or oppose requiring all people to show government issues photo ID when they vote?

Q5.11: Do you think fraud changed the outcome of the Presidential election in your state?