Tom Fitton Quotes

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

We need to recognize that, whether you're looking at Georgia or North Carolina or North Dakota or Florida, that the disenfranchisement of voters, the suppression of votes, cuts across every community, and therefore, it cuts across partisanship.

It is clear that the photo ID requirement is not a solution to a problem but is instead a political ploy to prevent traditionally disenfranchised populations from voting for the candidates of their choice.

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

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

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 shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read African American voter-turnout machine.

Voting is crucial, and I don't give a damn how you look at it: there are efforts to stop people from voting. That's not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.

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

Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't require forms of ID that folks don't have. We shouldn't restrict days or hours that allow working people a chance to both do their job and exercise their democratic right, and we damn well shouldn't be throwing up new obstacles midstream.

During my time in the Texas State Legislature, I witnessed firsthand the lack of evidence behind the rampant claims of voter fraud and the obstacles voters would face if the 2011 photo Voter ID were put in place.

There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.

I'm going to continue to do the work we're doing on voter suppression, supporting the work that's being done by Fair Count, ensuring a fair Census count.

I've heard Donald Trump say some pretty unhinged things. I've heard them over and over and over again. But nothing is more dangerous to our democracy than his attacks on mail-in voting in the middle of a pandemic.

Let us not return to the old battlefield where so many shed blood and tears for the right to vote. Instead let us move forward to an era where all eligible Americans have equal access to the ballot box and have the freedom to vote for the candidate of their choosing.

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.

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

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

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 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.

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.

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

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.