Terry McAuliffe Quotes

My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.

No voters will be left behind.

Americans need national voter registration reform to break down the barriers that discourage and discriminate.

We need to recognize that, whether you're looking at Georgia or North Carolina or North Dakota or Florida, that the disenfranchisement of voters, the suppression of votes, cuts across every community, and therefore, it cuts across partisanship.

Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.

We must stand vigilant to protect our voting access.

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

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

Negroes could not vote in those days. When I went to Massachusetts and ran for office, it was the first time in my life that I ever voted.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

How can we tell our children if we do not make reasonable efforts to count every vote.

[The President should] get a voting bill [from Congress] that will end the necessity for any more voting rights bills.

The marked decrease in the average vote for congressmen in the South, from 1892 to 1902, is due primarily to the limitations upon the suffrage, and that these limitations were intended to eliminate the negro vote.

In my home county—Lowndes County, Alabama--in 1964 Blacks were 80 percent of the population. Not one Black was registered to vote—Not one!!!

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

Making it harder for the most vulnerable voters to participate in the political process inevitably leads to policies and policymakers that do not represent the interests of all people.

Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't require forms of ID that folks don't have. We shouldn't restrict days or hours that allow working people a chance to both do their job and exercise their democratic right, and we damn well shouldn't be throwing up new obstacles midstream.

As Democrats, we believe in giving every eligible citizen the opportunity to vote - whether it's early because they can't take off work on Election Day or absentee because they might have plans to be out of town.

I do know that I don't want to see anybody legitimately have the excuse that they are not voting because their votes don't count. That can't happen - whether I'm the one impacted by that vote or not.

As an organizer in the most underrepresented communities in my state, I have felt the frustration that so many voters must feel when other states limit polling locations, require photo IDs, and put unnecessary barriers in front of voters.

It is clear that the photo ID requirement is not a solution to a problem but is instead a political ploy to prevent traditionally disenfranchised populations from voting for the candidates of their choice.

My policies and my record are very clear that I have made it easier to vote. We have made the elections process more accessible to people in Georgia, not less, despite their rhetoric.

Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.