Hassan Al-Turabi Quotes

Something's wrong with all countries and all voting systems.

It has become a cliché that voters no longer choose their legislators. The legislators choose their voters.

We have a problem with our democracy when you have election officials deliberately trying to take away the fundamental right to vote in this country in the 21st century.

We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.

I've heard Donald Trump say some pretty unhinged things. I've heard them over and over and over again. But nothing is more dangerous to our democracy than his attacks on mail-in voting in the middle of a pandemic.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

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.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

…by gerrymandering the State, seven hundred Democratic votes were equal to one thousand Republican votes.

We are talking about an issue with fundamental significance to how democracies work. One can safely say it is now an even bigger issue.

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.

It seems to me there has been some systematic disenfranchisement of voters … because people haven’t cared enough to spend the money to have good voting systems and voter education.

The U. S. Presidency could be decided by a system Americans would find unacceptable abroad…. U. S. officials, working in newly democratic countries don’t spend much time encouraging laws that would allow the second place candidate for national office to triumph.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

If the Election be made by the People in large Districts, there will be no danger of Demagogues.

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

By using the latest sophisticated software, state legislatures can carve out districts that guarantee electoral victory for one party or the other, often in the service of protecting incumbents.

Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do.

For too many years, those eligible to vote in primary or general elections did not bother to do so. Those sensible centrists who do not go to rallies but care deeply about our country effectively silenced their own voices. That sent the message to incumbents that they were either doing the right thing or that we just did not care.

To make sure Republicans stayed in power, they suppressed voting by people likely to vote Democratic, and gerrymandered states so that even if Democrats won a majority of votes, they would have a minority of representatives.

You can get elected to Congress without ever talking to black voters at all, and I think that's bad for the party.