Rasmussen’s Election Integrity Poll shows half of voters don’t trust election officials

New This is according to the Rasmussen Election Integrity Survey that nearly half of voters suspect election officials are involved in fraud. The poll also showed that half of respondents believed that such acts should result in criminal penalties.

Rasmussen Reports revealed the results in a post dated Thursday. The three-question poll, conducted Oct. 27-29, asked 1,854 likely voters whether they believed election workers and officials enabled fraud, how likely it was that those involved in voter fraud would be criminally charged, and what criteria the punishment should be. imposed on persons found guilty of such charges.

The survey follows claims that an “error” led to a Michigan voting report that showed multiple people cast ballots under the same voter’s name. A spokesman for the Michigan Secretary of State’s office according to New York Timesstated that the report contained an error and has since been corrected.

Also this week, a University of Michigan student from China is charged with illegal voting, According to Detroit news. The student is legally in the U.S. but is not a citizen. The Michigan Secretary of State’s office did not identify the student but said he falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen when registering to vote using a UM student ID card and other documents proving his residency in Ann Arbor.