Elections are de-federalized in the US; they are run by each state or, really, each county. That explains a lot of the mess. The other problem is there's never

Elections are de-federalized in the US; they are run by each state or, really, each county. That explains a lot of the mess. The other problem is there's never been a real effort to establish a universal ID in the US. Which means you can't fairly do voter ID, since a lot of people don't have ID for various reasons. The lack of voter ID doesn't turn out to be a big problem; there's basically no voter fraud in the US. But it means there's no proper role of eligible voters, either. The politics of this can't be ignored. The Republicans have a deliberate strategy of making it difficult for people to vote, and employ that strategy every time cleaning up voter roles or enacting voter ID comes up. They do not operate in good faith.