Donna Brazile Quotes

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.

As an organizer in the most underrepresented communities in my state, I have felt the frustration that so many voters must feel when other states limit polling locations, require photo IDs, and put unnecessary barriers in front of voters.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

Making it harder for the most vulnerable voters to participate in the political process inevitably leads to policies and policymakers that do not represent the interests of all people.

We have a problem with our democracy when you have election officials deliberately trying to take away the fundamental right to vote in this country in the 21st century.

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.

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.

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 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.

We must stand vigilant to protect our voting access.

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

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

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

No voters will be left behind.

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.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

The Voting Rights Act is a voter protection act, not a candidate or incumbent protection act.

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