Politicians and partisan media often try to motivate their base to subscribe, donate, engage and turn out to vote by blaming the other party. Is voter suppression or voter fraud a bigger threat to democracy? Or are concerns overblown?
, which they argue makes it easier for fraudulent votes to be counted in the election. The right argues voter ID is a simple way to make sure voters are who they say they are, preventing fraudsters from showing up and claiming to be people who aren’t voting, or who moved, were incarcerated, or deceased but are still on the voter rolls.
Some on the right see Georgia's law banning handing out food and water as a reasonable measure to protect voters from outside pressure. The law does not ban setting up water or food in unattended receptacles, so someIn regards to voter rolls, the rightthat they can be out of date and inaccurate.
Ballot drop boxes pose a similar security issue on the right. Not only is there no way to be sure someone isdropping off their own ballot and that the ballot is received from the box, but there is also theSome on the right acknowledge that the changes to voting rules were necessary during the COVID pandemic, but also believe that the dominance of mail-in voting and other abrupt changes made the 2020 election less secure and left more gaps in the integrity of the voting system.
. The story was taken down from social media sites that labeled it, without evidence but due to a general concern of possible foul play, as “misinformation” before the election. After the election and additional media reports authenticated the initial story, social media sites removed the label and stopped censoring it.
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