Richard Edelman Quotes

Have election day on a weekend so that people can vote.

Voting in Florida is like there’s some kind of goody in a box and you want to get it, but you’ve got to be persistent to get it.

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.

We have to continue to raise awareness as the Voting Rights Caucus... make sure people call into their state legislators. Let us know that they've decided they weren't going to vote because they heard it was a hassle.

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

You've got to jump through all kinds of hoops to vote in America.

One of the things about the electoral system in the United States, in general, is that it is very susceptible to class. In poorer neighborhoods you are going to have a lower turnout. This country is very much a middle-class country. When you're talking about poor or working-class people, there are not many vehicles for mobilizing them.

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

There are many fronts in the fight to make voting easier for all.

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.

In the United States, we've put our elections on Tuesday. That's dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense.

You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.

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

My policies and my record are very clear that I have made it easier to vote. We have made the elections process more accessible to people in Georgia, not less, despite their rhetoric.

Get out and vote. If you can't vote, then register other people to vote. Get people to the polls; make sure that people who need to vote can vote.

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.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

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.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.