Not that HN is a good venue for partisan bickering, but... I think the GOP has been actively involved with voter suppression and manipulation since the outcome

Not that HN is a good venue for partisan bickering, but... I think the GOP has been actively involved with voter suppression and manipulation since the outcome of the 2000 election. The whole push for touchscreen voting machines in the first place is to weaken the electoral process, imho. So no, they're not going to push for an all-paper system, and they'll resist such a push. Democrats don't have an interest in actively undermining the verification of the voting process. Clean elections are better for them, generally, so they have no reason to be opposed. So no, not a lower standard. Just different interests. If the Democrats had the kind of anti-democratic interests the GOP does, they'd be doing the same things the GOP does. But they don't, and distrust in the process of voting itself is a major problem with America today. Pushing for free, fair, and understandable elections is a political winner for Democrats.