Matt Gaetz Quotes

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

Voter suppression is wrong even if it’s not racist. Any legislation that exists for the sole purpose of making it more difficult for an otherwise eligible person to vote is unethical. It’s straightforward cheating.

We have a problem with our democracy when you have election officials deliberately trying to take away the fundamental right to vote in this country in the 21st century.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

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

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

… the Republicans are all about suppressing votes.

People don't wake up to go to vote and then have their ballot not counted.

Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.

From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.

Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.

The Left would pretend voter fraud is no big deal.

Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while.

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

No matter how many times the court shuts them down or how many Americans speak out to defend their rights, Republican politicians who stand to gain from suppressing voters won't back down. They'll only change their tactics.

It's part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there's widespread voter fraud all across the country. In fact, there's not.

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan.

The total bogus voters in Dera Bassi might be several thousand.

There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'

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