Adam Cohen Quotes

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

Elections should be prepared as well as possible and raise as little doubt as possible

When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

The Voter Expansion Project's mission is clear: Ensure that every eligible citizen can register, every registered voter can vote, and every vote is accurately counted.

I believe same-day registration has to be part of comprehensive reform of our voting systems that will also restore pre-clearance, shorten lines at polls, and ensure that no one who wants to vote is denied their constitutional right.

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.

I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.

That every elector, before he is admitted to vote, shall, if required by the returning-officer or either of the inspectors, take an oath, or, if of the people called Quakers, an affirmation, of allegiance to the State.

We are the world’s greatest democracy but we are behind a number of other countries when it come to our voting processes… The good news is that most of these are problems are fixable.

There are many fronts in the fight to make voting easier for all.

I am very confident that in 2008, people's votes will count. I don't think they did in 2004. I think in 2008, they will.

Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.

The 2020 Election is believed to be the most important in our lifetime. Therefore, I've chosen to become more involved in the voting process by using my social media platform to encourage voting and my facility as a Dekalb County early voting polling station.

A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.