While there have recently been some issues with some elections in the US, we definitely don't have an "election integrity" issue.
There is very little evidence that any elections in the US have been affected by fraud by any significant amount.
There is very little evidence that any elections in the US have been affected by fraud by any significant amount.
For example, in Georgia, US, one of the candidates himself blocked 53,000 voter registrations just 3 weeks before the election. The demographics of the 53,000 is 70% black.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/13/657109536/georgia-puts-53-000...
Gerrymandering, strict voter id laws (e.g. requiring drivers license but removing all but one DMV in the entire county in opponent's strongholds) and similar are also various ways to negatively affect election integrity.
It's also one of the few that doesn't have compulsory universal uniform national (or even state) ID. Oddly, the same faction that is up in arms about voter ID is also dedicated to avoiding compulsory national/state ID.
If we had compulsory universal ID with the supportive policies necessary to avoid that becoming an unreasonable burden on the poor, or selected political groups or racial minorities, voter ID would be a non-problem. As it is, it's a problematic mechanism which is publicly sold as solving something which is a non-problem to all evidence, and has on multiple occasions been privately admitted by it's backers (and subsequentlt revealed) to be actually motivated by partisan interest and racial animus, in both cases being about keeping disfavored eligible voters from voting.
When Alabama enacted voter ID, it simultaneously shut down DMV offices in counties with the most potential black voters.
Or like in Texas where student IDs are specifically prohibited from being used for voting, even though gun permits are, in order to suppress student turnout.
Or in North Dakota, where voter laws were changed to suppress Native Americans from voting using tribal IDs.
So can knives.
> When Alabama enacted voter ID, it simultaneously shut down DMV offices in counties with the most potential black voters.
Most of these problems are now mitigated by years of not needing ID. Now we have voter registration mailouts and such. Don't just throw away a good idea because of past abuse. We strive to be better. Giving up is regressive.
The specific (Alabama) “past abuse” referred to by the grandparent was in 2011-2015, not some distant time where there has been intervening radical change in the political culture that would render it irrelevant.
> Don't just throw away a good idea
The whole idea was voter suppression. There is no good idea associated with Voter ID laws in the United States. People involved in them this decade have admitted the racial and partisan purpose (usually, when they thought only members of their race and party were around, obviously.)
The whole idea was for some people.
> There is no good idea associated with Voter ID laws in the United States
I disagree. Voting accountability is treated seriously in every state I've resided.
So to say that 'we definitely don't have an "election integrity" issue' isn't correct. There is nothing definite about it - we just have a consensus that we don't have a problem. You could say the same about every data security breach until they were discovered. I have noticed that there is a significant cultural interest in propagating the idea that our elections are sound so I tend to take the idea with a grain of salt as long as our system is as vulnerable as it is.
Disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, polling place reductions, unequal representation, etc. are, however, quite rampant. Not all votes are equal in the US, and not all voters are treated as equal either. The result is the same (subversion of democracy), but the tactics are different.
The idea that the US doesn't have election integrity issues is simply false.