--- title: Voter Fraud: Poll Shows 1 in 4 Voters Believe Donald Trump description: A new study has found that 25% of voters think Donald Trump's voter fraud claims are true, and 36% of Trump supporters believe him. canonical: https://time.com/4656540/voter-fraud-donald-trump-poll/ author: Madeline Farber article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-01T16:43:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:04:28.858Z article:section: Politics og:title: One-Fourth of Voters Believe Unfounded Voter Fraud Claim og:description: After President Trump repeatedly claimed millions voted illegally. og:url: https://time.com/4656540/voter-fraud-donald-trump-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5db1dd950d261082/6988b84ff887dca24ce98e9a/donald-trump-voter-fraud.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP-AFRICAN HISTORY MONTH og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: One-Fourth of Voters Believe Unfounded Voter Fraud Claim twitter:description: After President Trump repeatedly claimed millions voted illegally. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5db1dd950d261082/6988b84ff887dca24ce98e9a/donald-trump-voter-fraud.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 25% of Voters Believe President Trump's Unfounded Voter Fraud Claim by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Feb 1, 2017 4:43 PM UTC  Donald Trump speaks during African American History Month listening session in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Feb. 1, 2017. Donald Trump speaks during African American History Month listening session in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Feb. 1, 2017.Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Feb 1, 2017 4:43 PM UTC Since November, President Trump has claimed, without evidence and [against the findings of political scientists](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/24/politics/voter-fraud-white-house-academic/), that millions of non-citizens voted illegally in the 2016 election—which he blames for [costing him the popular vote](http://time.com/4608555/hillary-clinton-popular-vote-final/) against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Even though Trump’s own lawyers [dismissed](http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attorneys-said-no-evidence-voter-fraud-2017-1) fraud claims in a legal filing, the President remains convinced: On Jan. 25, just five days after his inauguration, he announced an [investigation](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/824227824903090176) into the matter. After his repeated accusations, 25% of voters now think the unfounded claims are true, too. A new [Morning Consult/Politico survey](http://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000159-f6e7-da98-a77d-f6f7cba90001) has found that one in four voters believe there was voter fraud in the election, while 44% do not. To obtain those results, pollsters surveyed 1,991 registered voters from Jan. 26 through Jan. 28\. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points, according to [Politico](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/poll-donald-trump-voter-fraud-234458). Among Democrats polled, only 16% believed the voter fraud allegations, compared to the 36% of Republicans surveyed who did. Interestingly, more of those who were surveyed believed that Trump, not former Democratic nominee Clinton, was helped by voter fraud. 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