At this point I feel like it's beyond ridiculous to try to defend the Republicans restrictive voting rights restrictions, because in many areas Republicans themselves have basically admitted they just don't like democracy. In Arizona the head of the GOP was lamenting there wasn't a statewide "Electoral College" (i.e. a way for the majority vote winner to be declared the loser), and in Georgia some in the GOP only toned down some of their voting rights restrictions when they realized it would hurt rural white voters. They don't even try to hide their cynicism in the BS "voting integrity" language anymore, because many of the restrictions (reducing early voting hours for example) just make it harder to vote with no benefit to voting security.