Mimi Kennedy Quotes

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

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.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Can you imagine on-line voting. Even when your body has to show up, they manage to cheat somehow.

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.

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

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.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.

We have confidence in the overall integrity of our electoral system. It is diverse, subject to local control, and has many checks and balances built in.

Voter fraud is almost non-existent. People don't just show up on election day, trying to impersonate other people.

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

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

By applying blockchain technology to voting platforms, we can prevent tampering with online voting, which will increase confidence in the voting results of voters and residents in Seoul.

We need to do everything in our power to assure the American people that the election system is secured and that outside forces will not interfere.

As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

Pretending that voter fraud does not exist puts the integrity of our voting process at risk.

I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.