Republicans are losing trust in elections, even in Utah. What should be done?

[RandySF]

Only 40% of Republicans are very or somewhat confident in the accuracy of U.S. elections — down from a peak of nearly 90% in 2006. Meanwhile 80% of Democrats and 67% of independent voters say they have confidence in U.S. elections.

That’s according to a poll of 2,012 Americans conducted by Gallup and Johns Hopkins University’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute in October.

Even Utah — a red state that adopted voting by mail well before COVID-19 and where polls historically have shown Utahns have high confidence in their local elections — isn’t immune to that trend, at least when it comes to presidential elections.

Consider these results from a new poll conducted by Gallup of 502 Utah adults between March 13 and March 22. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.83 percentage points:



https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/05/09/republicans-losing-trust-elections-utah-what-should-be-done/

[LiberalFighter]

1. If they don't trust election results...

Then Republicans shouldn't vote.

[Think. Again.]

2. That seems like the best solution to me.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Makes sense to me.

Take your balls and go home, Republicans. Your lack of confidence speaks volumes to your party as a whole. Or what is left of it.

[Emile]

4. I agree. They should stay home.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The number of elections stolen by crookery is one.

Bush v. Gore, 2000. Nobody wanted to count ALL the votes. I think they say the same about 1876.

That being said you can't steal an election that's not close. And I mean close by a few hundred votes, and even there every effort is made to count and recount.

Local elections can be close. A few votes. But no one is rigging federal elections by inserting cartloads of ballots, vote-flipping, bribery. We really as a country need to put this bullshit to bed.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. If I didn't trust elections

I wouldn't vote. That's what I think they should do. They have the right to vote or not vote.

[Ping Tung]

7. They don't trust elections but the DO trust Donald Trump?

I rest my case that Republicans are downright stupid.

[DBoon]

8. They could migrate to another nation where elections have pre-determined outcome

Russia, Hungary for example

[RAB910]

9. they are not losing trust in elections. They are developing a hatred for democracy because their fascist policies are

so unpopular with the American people

[NanaCat]

10. Tell them they're right, and suggest protesting that

By not voting.

Might as well use their stupid against them.