DeForest Soaries Quotes

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.

People don't wake up to go to vote and then have their ballot not counted.

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

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

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.