Survey study reveals that an access-integrity continuum shapes voting rule preferences in voters beyond partisanship, highlighting foundational values driving election policy support.
Election administration is under intense scrutiny, including scrutiny of the design of electoral systems. But why do voters prefer some voting rules over others? We introduce a new construct we refer to as the Access-Integrity Continuum. At its core, the Access-Integrity Continuum represents a voter’s weighting of the relative importance of ease of voter access in an election versus the integrity of an election. Utilizing data from a unique dataset of over 5,000 respondents from the 2022 election season, we measure the effects of the Access-Integrity Continuum versus partisanship on respondent preferences for different voting rules. We show that the Access-Integrity Continuum explains considerable variance in those preferences beyond partisanship.
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