Experts: elections seem more legitimate when you win

• State election integrity polls high among Republicans and Democrats • Independent voters have grown more skeptical due to distrust of Trump • Republican lawmakers still push reforms of election system

Republicans and Democrats appear to have reached some common ground on election integrity.

Voters in both parties have expressed a high level of confidence in the state’s elections, with Republicans reporting 77% confidence in election fairness and Democrats registering at 75%, according to a new poll from Noble Predictive Insights. In July 2021, only 40% of Republicans expressed confidence in election fairness.

According to the poll, 70% of voters currently express trust in the fairness of upcoming elections.

The overall confidence of Arizona voters has increased by 12 points since