Marc Veasey Quotes

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

My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.

No voters will be left behind.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

Americans need national voter registration reform to break down the barriers that discourage and discriminate.

We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.

Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.

We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.

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.

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.

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.

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

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation.

As Democrats, we believe in giving every eligible citizen the opportunity to vote - whether it's early because they can't take off work on Election Day or absentee because they might have plans to be out of town.

My policies and my record are very clear that I have made it easier to vote. We have made the elections process more accessible to people in Georgia, not less, despite their rhetoric.

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

The left patronizes minorities, pretends they don't know how to vote correctly, pretends they don't have IDs, when in fact they want their votes to count, and participate in greater numbers when you assure them their votes will count.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

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

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

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

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

End racial and ethnic gerrymandering, stop voter I.D. laws that seek to suppress voters of color, and make sure everyone can add their voice and their vote to this great democracy.

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.