Need to Communicate with Electors Vs. Personal Privacy

This vertical bar graph is titled "Need to Communicate with Electors versus Personal Privacy." It shows answers to Question 9, "In the trade-off between preserving an elector's privacy and the need for political parties and candidates to be able to communicate with electors, which do you think is more important?"

1,011 respondents voted on a 5-point scale 5, with 5 being "Need to communicate should always prevail" and 1 being "Privacy should always prevail".

The breakdown of responses is as follows:

• 9 percent said 5
• 6 percent said 4
• 19 percent said 3
• 13 percent said 2
• 53 percent said 1
• 1 percent refused to respond