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• If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

  Pete Coors

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion – no public funding for abortion.

  Bart Stupak

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• The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

  Thomas E. Mann

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• Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

  George Gallup

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• It’s clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

  George Galloway

  Topics in College

  Tags in Electoral, Voting

• It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country’s history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

  Sidney Blumenthal

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• Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it’s valid.

  Macklemore

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  Tags in Two, Understand, Voting, Corrupt, Politicians

• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  Earl Long

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• Americans of our own time – minority and majority Americans alike – need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

  Elijah Cummings

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• Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

  DeForest Soaries

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• There is extreme interest in voting, total determination for democracy and freedom.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Democracy

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• 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.

  DeForest Soaries

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• It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

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  Tags in Election, Counting, Voting

• My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

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• When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

  DeForest Soaries

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• Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  Larry Flynt

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• Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man’s choice, and is highly prized.

  Ambrose Bierce

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

  DeForest Soaries

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• Voting is a civic sacrament.

  Theodore Hesburgh

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• It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.

  Tom Stoppard

  Topics in Democracy

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