COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With Election Day less than a month away a growing number of Americans do not trust the process, but Missouri officials are still confident that the state's elections are fair and secure. A study by the Pew Research Center found that after the 2020 presidential election only 21% of Donald Trump supporters surveyed had a favorable view of how the election was administered nationally while 94% of Joe Biden supporters surveyed said the elections were run well.
The same study found that just 35% of Trump supporters surveyed were very confident their vote was counted. Trump did not concede after his 2020 defeat in the presidential election, alleging widespread fraud that kept him from winning. Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft feels that some of those voters' concerns are valid.
“You look at what happened in Pennsylvania where the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ignored their own constitution with regard to absentee ballots. Look at what's happening in Virginia and Alabama right now, where the United States Department of Justice is ignoring the Constitution and is suing to stop non-citizens from being removed from the rolls in that state,” Ashcroft said. Harvard University conducted a study in 2020 known as the Electoral Integrity Project .
The study consisted of nearly 800 election scholars from each party who observed the election process across all 50 states. The results found that the experts overwhelmingly rejected claims of fraud in the 2020 electi.