Republicans ideologically divided over making it easy for all to vote % who say
Two-thirds of Americans (67%) say everything possible should be done to make it easy for every citizen to vote, but Republicans – especially conservative Republicans – are less likely to hold this view, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
While Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (84%) overwhelmingly say everything possible should be done to make it easy to vote, Republicans and GOP leaners are split: Nearly half (48%) say everything possible should be done to make it easy to vote, while 51% say citizens should have to prove they want to vote by registering ahead of time.
Only about a third of conservative Republicans (36%) favor doing everything possible to make it easy to vote, compared with a majority (65%) of moderate and liberal Republicans. (A report earlier this year, based on 2017 data, found that conservatives constituted a majority – 68% – of Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters; moderates and liberals made up about a third of GOP voters, or 31%.)
Among Democrats, large majorities of both liberals (89%) and conservatives and moderates (80%) say everything possible should be done to make it easy to vote. (In 2017, 52% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters described their views as conservative or moderate, while 46% identified as liberal.)
Republicans ideologically divided over  | making it easy for all to vote  | % who say  | Citizens should have  | Everything  | to prove they wantto  | possible should  | vote by registering  | be done to make  | ahead of time  | it easy to vote  | Total  | 32  | 67  | Rep/Lean Rep  | 51  | 48  | Conservative  | 63  | 36  | 34  | 65  | Mod/Lib  | Dem/Lean Dem  | 15  | 84  | Cons/Mod  | 20  | 80  | Liberal  | 89  | 1.1  | Notes: No answer not shown.  | Source: Survey of US adults conducted Sept 24-0ct. 7, 2018  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 