Common sense reforms like voter ID laws and paper ballots don't discourage people from voting. They are commonly used in most functioning democracies around the world.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/29/texas-voting-restric...
It creates the perception that it has nothing to do with ensuring the quality of the vote at all.
With anything political, you can almost always find politicians contorting them for their own benefit. That doesn't mean the underlying concept is bad, only the contortion is bad.