Barbara Mikulski Quotes

Every vote counts and we must count every vote.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

How can we tell our children if we do not make reasonable efforts to count every vote.

The Voter Expansion Project's mission is clear: Ensure that every eligible citizen can register, every registered voter can vote, and every vote is accurately counted.

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

If people want to take the time to vote, they should be able to, and their vote should be counted.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

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

The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

If we really mean that people's votes are to be counted, the timelines ought to exist around what it takes to count every vote.

Voter confidence depends on the clean elections.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

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

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.

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.