Brian Kemp Quotes

There is no purging. We are following federal laws to keep our voting rolls clean. That word, purging, is outrageous.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

Registration is a necessary—but not sufficient—condition for voting.

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.

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

The only people that should vote should be legal.

To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?

… we have had many, many cases of non-citizens registered to vote prior to our new legislation.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud during the 2016 elections or any relatively recent election.

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.

There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.

An average person like me does not know about stuff like chasing absentee ballots.

First of all, it's important to note that the federal government doesn't have the authority to take anybody off of any voter rolls. The states are in control of each of their voter rolls in the 50 states.

While the United States is a prime example of fair elections, there is room for improvement, starting with passing voter identification laws across the country.

Every time an alien votes, it cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen!

Everybody calls it a purge, but when people move out of the state, they don't need to be on our voting rolls if they're living somewhere else. That's how you get double voting.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land. The law of Florida is that if you're a noncitizen, you don't vote in these races.

I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.

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.

The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn't shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that's why they don't want it.

I don't think New Mexicans know how many people vote illegally.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.