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No. Your parent is correct in the main, and you're a bit off-topic with your comparisons to other countries. Election security is a function of multiple process
by unclebucknasty 5y ago
No. Your parent is correct in the main, and you're a bit off-topic with your comparisons to other countries. Election security is a function of multiple processes and protocols that work together. The fact that one country does X does not mean that X must be done elsewhere.
In the U.S., it is true that the push for voter ID laws as a supposed fraud prevention measure has been the formulation of one modern political party, as are claims of widespread fraud in general. These claims have been refuted ad nauseum by election experts for years, yet they are still used by that party as justification for voter ID and a raft of other measures that consistently have uneven impacts on specific groups.
What's most recently changed is that, while these false claims were used to preemptively disenfranchise select voters pre-election, they are now being used by the loser in efforts to delegitimize the actual election results.
The effect of this has been for that same political party to now introduce yet more measures in the state legislatures they control. And, in some cases, they have wrested control away from state secretaries, allocating it to themselves.
All of this is on the back of false claims.