Voter Protection Quotes

One of the areas that many of us, including the Women's March organizers, are focusing on is starting mass voter registration and voter engagement.

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.

The left patronizes minorities, pretends they don't know how to vote correctly, pretends they don't have IDs, when in fact they want their votes to count, and participate in greater numbers when you assure them their votes will count.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

They hustled the indifferent to the booths; they lent shawls and held babies; they carried the sick and dying to the polls on mattresses—and they won. May black shame fall upon the individual or the party who, having the trust of these women, ever betrays it.

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.

It is essential that every eligible American voter has the ability and access to have their voice heard.

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

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

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

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

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

My hope is that Kansas will be to stopping election fraud what Arizona is to stopping illegal immigration.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

My voting rights agenda is not that different from what you'd see in H.R. 1.

Judicial Watch has taken the lead nationwide in defending state voter ID laws and other commonsense election integrity measures, filing amicus briefs in the Supreme Court and in several circuit courts of appeal and trial courts.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

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

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

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

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.

Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.