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Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support. -- Jennifer Granholm
Voter apathy is a civic abdication. -- Charles M. Blow
Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters. -- Cynthia McKinney
Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy. -- Hazen Pingree
Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done. -- Mike Turzai
Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past. -- Aasif Mandvi
The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud. -- Lynn Westmoreland
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. -- Winston Churchill
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. -- John F. Kennedy
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. -- Dan Quayle
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. -- Dan Quayle
We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better. -- Joan Blades
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections. -- Sonny Perdue
You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there. -- Eric Holder
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter. -- Andrew Young
I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation. -- Al Franken
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. -- Dick Gregory
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan. -- John Lewis
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well. -- Jose Marti
I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer. -- Sue Monk Kidd
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. -- Barbra Streisand
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery. -- Bob Schaffer
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. -- Andrew Young
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you. -- Rush Limbaugh
When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote. -- Christine Pelosi
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. -- Ralph Nader
The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. -- Bill Kristol
Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. -- Karl Rove
It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do. -- Jeff Greenfield
Every voter became Narendra Modi. -- Narendra Modi
Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase. -- Mike Huckabee
Every voter is a Bharat Bhagya Vidhata. -- Narendra Modi
I don't like what's going on with voter ID. -- Donald Trump
Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval. -- Mike Huckabee
Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections. -- Aasif Mandvi
I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud. -- Jon Stewart
No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls. -- Rick Scott
The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks. -- Jonathan Gruber
The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness. -- Jonathan Gruber
Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud. -- Dave Barry
During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter. -- Martha Plimpton
A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers. -- Paul Weyrich
The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. -- Learned Hand
We sent out 3,000 Valentines to the ladies, asking them to be my voter. -- Terry Dill
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future. -- Theodore White
If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter. -- Winston Churchill
The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional. -- Bob Ehrlich
Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment. -- Bernie Sanders
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen
If you don't have voter ID, you can just keep voting and voting and voting. -- Donald Trump
That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one -- Pat Sajak
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail. -- Joan Blades
That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one. -- Pat Sajak
I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006. -- Keith Ellison
Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon. -- Jonathan Gruber
The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues. -- P. Chidambaram
Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. -- Mary Cheney
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In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything. -- Tommy Lee Jones
I've proposed a contract with the American voter that will give the government back to the people. -- Donald Trump
Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief. -- Charles Kennedy
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My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it. -- Michael Baumgartner
Newt Gingrich called it [Donald] Trump`s biggest mistake since he won the election, these crazy accusations about voter fraud. -- Chuck Todd
As the evidence has shown, the cases of voter fraud across the country are statistically minimal if you go back decades. -- Audie Cornish
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year. -- Jeff Miller
The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy Award voter with a tampon in her purse. -- Joan Rivers
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. -- Elmer Davis
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. -- Terry Pratchett
I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter. -- Sharron Angle
The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil. -- Julianne Malveaux
The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. -- Eric Liu
'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. -- Eric Liu
There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn`t believe in our election system and believes that there`s rampant voter fraud. -- Chuck Todd
First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy. -- Gail Collins
Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression. -- Joe Eszterhas
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter. -- Erich Fromm
I think its ridiculous. I mean the voter ID situation has turned out to be a very unfair development. We may have people vote 10 times. -- Donald Trump
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. -- Danny Glover
I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods. -- John Kasich
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer. -- John Jay Chapman
The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values." -- Paul Smith
It's time to override this fraud being committed on the American voter of the two-party tyranny of this private corporation of the Commission on Presidential Debates. -- Jill Stein
I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected. -- Mike Curb
I would not be surprised. The voter ID, they're fighting as hard as you can fight so that that they don't have to show voter ID. -- Donald Trump
The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media. -- Stephen Colbert
he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me. -- Andrew Saul
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war. -- Aslan Maskhadov
The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done. -- Paul Samuelson
Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go. -- Hamid Karzai
If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization. -- Al Sharpton
Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions? -- Mickey Kaus
Nearly two and a half million people die every year that are on the voter rolls. So it takes time to get dead people off the voter rolls. -- Kellyanne Conway
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation. -- Ella Baker
Donald Trump singled out three particular states where he claimed there was, quote, "serious voter fraud" - Virginia, New Hampshire and California. Trump lost all three of those states. -- Audie Cornish
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them -- Franklin P. Adams
Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view. -- Dick Morris
[Mitt] Romney didn't get beyond the numbers. He couldn't get 50 percent. Romney didn't - Romney got killed by the under-$50,000-a-year income voter. He just got killed in that. -- Jeff Sessions
Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass. -- Jonathan Gruber
Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He's making promises he has no intention of keeping. -- Mitt Romney
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism. -- Christopher Hitchens
Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key issues that matter to them to cast their vote. -- Steven J. Law
If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy. -- Malcolm Wallop
I think Donald Trump needs to be judged on his own words and his own behavior and the American voter is getting ample evidence on which they can make that judgment. -- Tim Kaine
My mom was always active. She was always an active voter, whether it was local, state, or federal elections. My mom would take us to polling locations when we were kids. -- Scarlett Johansson
Here's the problem, we need folks like John Lewis and others who, I think, have been champions of voter rights, to actually recognize the fact that Donald Trump was duly elected. -- Reince Priebus
People voting for Donald Trump are doing so for a whole lot of different reasons, but I think there is a typical Trump voter. I think they're there for specific reasons. -- Rush Limbaugh
I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention. -- Aaron Schock
If anything, a message back to [Donald] Trump is, if you have proof, if you have evidence, please bring it forward. Procedures are in place to investigate any real voter fraud. -- Audie Cornish
People voting for Donald Trump are doing so for a whole lot of different reasons, but I think there is a typical Trump voter. I think they're there for specific reasons. -- Rush Limbaugh
They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted. -- Conrad Burns
They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didnt have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted. -- Conrad Burns
Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign. -- Bob Beauprez
If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative. -- John Perez
With super PACs, we've seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less. -- Bradley A. Smith

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