Election Security Quotes

Instead of debating whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 elections - in ways that ranged from encouraging incorrect voting methods to promoting fake rallies to sharing false election stories - Americans should be debating how to counter this activity.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

The blame for election interference belongs to the criminals who committed election interference. We need to work together to hold the perpetrators accountable, and keep moving forward to preserve our values, protect against future interference, and defend America.

We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.

If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process.

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.

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

We know, without question, especially during a pandemic, we have to preserve people's rights to be healthy and safe but also to exercise their fundamental right to vote and I think all of us should be very clear and very loud about that.

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.

Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

As the state's chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

All voting systems are capable of being corrupted. most of them have been or will be ... simply because voting is the way we determine who gets power in this great country.

The Russians hacked into the Illinois State Board of Elections. They got into the database.

Flooding the mails with ballots is an invitation for voter fraud and chaos on Election Day. There is a danger of votes being lost, tampered with and, frankly, not counted by overwhelmed election officials.

Voter fraud is almost non-existent. People don't just show up on election day, trying to impersonate other people.

The Voting Rights Act is a voter protection act, not a candidate or incumbent protection act.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

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 don't care if you're Democrat. I don't care if you're Republican. We need to make sure that, you know, people in other countries don't have any impact on our elections.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

Even if AAP wins municipal elections we will continue to demand probe into EVM tampering because it threatens the base of democracy.

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.