WISCONSIN – New polling unveiled at a WisPolitics luncheon in Madison yesterday reveals shocking changes in voter confidence as midterms approach. Continued rhetoric on the issue of election integrity has driven voter confidence in election systems back to pre-2024 election levels, highlighting alarming trends.

See the key findings and other poll takeaways on our website here as well as key notes below: 

  • Voters still have more confidence in how Wisconsin elections are conducted than nationally, but that number has fallen sharply from 47% in April 2025 to just 40% being very confident that the 2024 election in Wisconsin was conducted accurately.
  • A majority of Republican voters, 52%, doubt that elections across the country were conducted accurately, up from just 20% who felt that way just a year ago
  • 31% of Wisconsin voters are not confident the 2026 elections will be conducted accurately, including 54% of Republicans polled.
  • When asked if election administrators are important volunteers or partisans who need to be monitored, respondents shifted dramatically toward “partisans” with 37% of respondents, including 71% of Republicans, believing election officials are partisan.
  • 41% of respondents believe election officials knowingly submit false vote counts, with 18% believing that happens often.
  • 42% believe that non-citizens or non-Wisconsin residents are allowed to cast votes illegally in our state elections, with 1 in 4 believing that occurs often.

The Democracy Defense Project – Wisconsin board, including former Attorney General JB Van Hollen, Former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Former U.S. Representative Scott Klug and former Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate, released the below statement: 

“The 2026 elections will represent a critical juncture in our fight to restore public trust in election administration. The findings of this poll show that the continued rhetoric demonizing election workers, officials, and volunteers has a substantive impact – one that we as a nation must come together to counter. We call on every candidate across the state to proactively affirm they will stand by the outcomes of the election and refuse to be complicit in the demonization of election workers for political gain.”