Brian Kemp Quotes

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

The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?

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.

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

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.

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 are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.

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.

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.

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn't shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that's why they don't want it.

I don't think New Mexicans know how many people vote illegally.

Democrats tend to always encourage people to vote – whether they are alive or dead.

There are many fronts in the fight to make voting easier for all.

Voter fraud is almost non-existent. People don't just show up on election day, trying to impersonate other people.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud during the 2016 elections or any relatively recent election.

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

Judicial Watch has taken the lead nationwide in defending state voter ID laws and other commonsense election integrity measures, filing amicus briefs in the Supreme Court and in several circuit courts of appeal and trial courts.

As the state's chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.

A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.

First of all, it's important to note that the federal government doesn't have the authority to take anybody off of any voter rolls. The states are in control of each of their voter rolls in the 50 states.

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.