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Voters wait in line to cast their ballot in Arizona's presidential primary election, Tuesday, March 22. | AP Photo Gallup: Republican confidence in election process plummets

Republicans' confidence that the election process is working as it should has dropped precipitously over the past two months, according to the latest Gallup survey data released Friday.

Compared to January, when 46 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said the way the presidential campaign is being conducted makes them feel as though the election process is working as it should, just 30 percent of 1,012 respondents said they felt the same way this month. The findings also represent an 11-point drop from February alone, when 41 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said the process was working.

Among all adults surveyed, 30 percent in March also said the election process is working, down 3 points from February and 7 points since January. Among registered voters, 29 percent said things are working as they should, while 69 percent said they are not. For Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, confidence in the process was only slightly higher, at 32 percent, roughly the same level as previous months.

When Gallup asked the question in December 2011 during the previous presidential election cycle, 39 percent of adults nationwide said they thought the process was working, while 58 percent said it was not. Prior to that, the share of American adults expressing confidence in the process never dropped below 47 percent dating to January 2000, with as much as 67 percent feeling like the process was working as it should in January 2008.

Regardless of their faith in the process, 71 percent of all registered voters said there was at least one candidate still left running in the race who would make a good president, with just 27 percent finding no candidate presidential material. Asked whether the presidential candidates are talking about issues they care about, 61 percent said they are, compared with 36 percent who said they are not, largely in line with findings from the first two months of 2016.

The results are based on telephone interviews conducted between March 16-17, surveying 1,012 adults nationwide, including 898 registered voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.