Marc Veasey Quotes

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

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.

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.

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.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

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.

Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

The Voting Rights Act is a voter protection act, not a candidate or incumbent protection act.

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.

What they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money or other property of American citizens, but something much more valuable—their most precious heritage, the right to vote in a free election.

[The President should] get a voting bill [from Congress] that will end the necessity for any more voting rights bills.

We are the world’s greatest democracy but we are behind a number of other countries when it come to our voting processes… The good news is that most of these are problems are fixable.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

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.