# Nearly eight in ten say the people they care about value voting

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## Reading

A September 2023 Verasight survey finds that roughly three-quarters of Americans (77%) say the people they care about consider voting important, including 55% who see it as very important and 23% who see it as somewhat important.

About one-in-nine (11%) are unsure what those people think. Smaller shares say the people close to them view voting as not that important (7%) or not at all important (4%), and about 1% say those people disapprove of voting.

## Topline

Do the people that you care about, like your friends and family, think that voting in elections is important or unimportant, or do they disapprove of voting?

Nearly eight in ten say the people they care about value voting.

Net findings combine adjacent response options from the same scale.

- They think voting is very important: 54.6%
- They think voting is somewhat important: 22.7%
- I don't know what they think: 11.0%
- They think voting is not that important: 6.7%
- They think voting is not at all important: 3.9%
- They strongly disapprove of voting: 0.6%
- They disapprove of voting: 0.5%

## Methodology

- Mode: Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
- Population: United States adults
- Field dates: 2023-09-07 → 2023-09-13
- Base (unweighted): 2,000
- Margin of error: +/- 2.3%
- Module: 2023 APSA Omnibus Survey #2023-071
- Sponsor: Verasight
- Weight variable: weight
- Weighting targets: age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status

## Source

- Canonical question URL: [https://verasight-apsa-2023.tiiny.co#importance-of-voting-according-to-personal-circle](https://verasight-apsa-2023.tiiny.co#importance-of-voting-according-to-personal-circle)

## Citation

2023 APSA Omnibus Survey #2023-071, fielded September 7-13, 2023, N=2,000 United States adults, +/- 2.3%.

Canonical question URL: [https://verasight-apsa-2023.tiiny.co#importance-of-voting-according-to-personal-circle](https://verasight-apsa-2023.tiiny.co#importance-of-voting-according-to-personal-circle)