Andrew Tan Quotes

Voter confidence depends on the clean elections.

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

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

We have to carefully consider whether our election system is critical infrastructure, like the financial system or the power grid. There is a vital national interest in our election process.

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.

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.

Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.

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.

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'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

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

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly.

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.

When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

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

We must not repeat the Florida fiasco. The way we vote and count our votes should be consistent with modern technology.

Elections should be prepared as well as possible and raise as little doubt as possible

About one quarter of all the voting machines in the United States stupidly do not have any paper trail.