Voter confidence ticks up in 2022 — but deep partisan divides remain

Voter confidence is ticking back up after the 2022 midterms, even as a deep partisan divide remains, according to a new survey released this week. Overall, 69 percent of registered voters said they were either very or somewhat confident that votes at a nationwide level were counted as intended, a prominent measure of voter trust in election integrity. The results come from a new survey from the MIT Election Data + Science Lab, a nonpartisan research group at the eponymous college. That is up from 61 percent in MIT’s 2020 version of the same survey. That growth comes almost entirely from Republicans, even as a dramatic partisan gap remains. Democrats’ confidence in the nationwide count was virtually unchanged — 93 percent in 2020 to 92 percent in 2022.