In your opinion, should Americans be allowed to legally gamble on elections?

👍 Yes (22%) – "Though it does create a another variable in terms of vote legitimacy, you can't tell people how they can and can't spend their money. If they want to gamble, they should be able to. Individual liberties are more important than the integrity of the election. The president doesn't decide our liberties - the constitution does - so by gambling on the election you are not going to accidentally put someone in office who will take away those individual liberties."

• "It could result in a more engaged voting population, similar to how some sports bettors follow obscure competitions like European soccer when they have money on the line."

👎 No (61%) – "We do not need any activity like this that would cause others to question our election integrity. It feels like our democracy is already so fragile right now and we need to do all we can to restore trust and confidence in our system."

• "I think gambling in general should be difficult to access - its addictive nature means it has the capacity to become a public health crisis. But this is particularly true for something as high-stakes as electing government officials. Introducing legal gambling into the mix creates more opportunity for corruption and reduces public trust in elections."

"I think right now the country is more at risk to losing trust in our elections than it is at risk to losing companies to the policy shift that comes with a new party in power. It is also more important that our elections are uninfluenced than it is that these companies survive."

• "I feel that with the already questionable counting systems used to possibly undermine the election, I feel like giving them more reasons to cheat it just wouldn't help. Bet on sports or something."

"It would just be another way to manipulate the election process. Why do businesses need to "hedge election risks"? Sounds like a way for the wealthy and powerful to profit while undermining the average hard-working person."

• "Allowing US Citizens and corporations (financial firms) to bet on elections will essentially provide huge incentives to influence and possibly rig a system for their financial benefit. This is dangerous and anything that introduces that benefit to winning has the potential to encourage malicious change to an election's outcome in illegal ways."

🤷 Unsure/other (17%) – "It's up to the individual, but then I think all forms of gambling are not smart. To sort of enlarge a quote by Roger Jones, professor of mathematics at DePaul University in Chicago: I guess I think of gambling as a tax on the mathematically challenged."

• "I'm not sure, but I do wonder if this would incentivize more people to get out and vote which is always a good thing."