Harold Washington Quotes

Popular elections are uncertain.

Elections are always about turnout.

As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

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.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

I don't think New Mexicans know how many people vote illegally.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

Too many people are voting.

It seems to me there has been some systematic disenfranchisement of voters … because people haven’t cared enough to spend the money to have good voting systems and voter education.

“Vote early and vote often,” the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.

Every vote counts and we must count every vote.

So go ahead with your program, President Trump. That why the people voted for you -- except the majority of them didn't.

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.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

Donald Trump won, or he got the majority of the electoral votes, a large majority. I think it would be patronizing to say that the majorities of people in Florida and Ohio, smaller majorities in Wisconsin and Michigan, that they voted for him because they were misled by something on Facebook.

Early voting is a vital component of the electoral landscape in Ohio.

Anything can happen when people run for office.