Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Quotes
Our plan is absolutely clear. It's organization of new elections, fair and transparent.
Tsikhanouskaya, Sviatlana. Press Conference. 21 Aug. 2020, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Misattributed. Statement was written by a humor writer to sound like Dan Quayle but wasn’t actually stated by him.
Historically, there has been a tendency to make it difficult for the poor to vote and having election day during working hours on a weekday was a very effective day of doing that. In modern times voting hours have been extended to 9 PM in some states so that working people could more easily vote. However, in modern times calls for weekend voting or Internet voting has been difficult to produce bipartisan support as increasing turnout tends to favor one party—the Democrats—over the other.
For a later version of this “advice” see Josh Billings {594820}
The voting problems we have had are managerially and technology solvable but politically each solution is perceived as favoring one of the political parties in the particular jurisdiction and therefore there is resistance to the change.
Sviatlana Heorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya or Svetlana Georgiyevna Tikhanovskaya is a Belarusian human rights activist and politician who ran for the 2020 Belarusian presidential election as the main opposition candidate. She is married to activist Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was a candidate for the same election until his arrest on 29 May 2020; she subsequently announced her intention to run in his place.