While Democrats are still more likely than other voters to say they plan to vote early this year if their state allows it, voters overall are even more likely than they’ve been in the past to say they’ll wait until Election Day to cast their vote.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 40% of Likely U.S. Voters say they are more likely to vote early if their state offers the opportunity to do so. Fifty-six percent (56%) say they are more likely to wait until Election Day, up slightly from 52% just before the 2014 midterm elections. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on September 28-29, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.