Lucy McBath Quotes

Even if AAP wins municipal elections we will continue to demand probe into EVM tampering because it threatens the base of democracy.

If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process.

America's elections are the foundation of our democracy - so protecting them is a priority for the FBI and our partners.

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.

You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.

It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

No election in the United States is wholly free from human or machine error.

The professionals at the State Board of Elections must assume control of the county board of elections operations in Bladen County, which has shown itself incapable of managing fair elections.

Clearly, dirty election rolls can mean dirty elections.

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.

When I was in the state legislature, we asked for different examples of voter fraud, and the Republicans could never produce any sort of in-person voter fraud examples.

Mandated mail-in voting and other extreme changes to the 2020 election in response to the COVID-19 pandemic could further undermine public confidence in the American electoral system.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

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.

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.

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

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

This is not the first time. We’ve had this problem in nearly every election that we administer in the city of Detroit.

If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.

To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.

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