The real political sides are populists vs elitists. The populists do want secure elections. The elitists claim that the populists are just racists who want to rob minorities of the vote.
Virtually all the Democrat party is Elitist, and much of the Republican party is. But there is a growing chunk of the Republican party that is populist.
And this is the tool with which the elites have held onto power since Abraham Lincoln.
I will further add that they didn't give former slaves the right to vote because it was the moral and proper thing to do, they gave them the vote because they knew they would always vote to keep the liberal elite in power.