DeForest Soaries Quotes

We must not repeat the Florida fiasco. The way we vote and count our votes should be consistent with modern technology.

Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.

Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.

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.

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

Casino slot machines in Las Vegas are far better audited than are electronic voting machines.

... elections are no longer representative.

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

All voting systems are capable of being corrupted. most of them have been or will be ... simply because voting is the way we determine who gets power in this great country.

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.

Can you imagine on-line voting. Even when your body has to show up, they manage to cheat somehow.

We are the world’s greatest democracy but we are behind a number of other countries when it come to our voting processes… The good news is that most of these are problems are fixable.

I believe same-day registration has to be part of comprehensive reform of our voting systems that will also restore pre-clearance, shorten lines at polls, and ensure that no one who wants to vote is denied their constitutional right.

By applying blockchain technology to voting platforms, we can prevent tampering with online voting, which will increase confidence in the voting results of voters and residents in Seoul.

There's a clear distinction between activities that threaten the security and integrity of our election systems, and the broader threat from influence operations designed to influence voters.

Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

Touch-screen voting machines absolutely cannot be relied upon. Our recommendation was optiscan ballots - where you actually have custody of the actual ballots after the ballots have been passed through the computer. That's the most reliable system to use. And people should not use the electronic voting machines. Even electronic voting machines with paper trails can be manipulated.

The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.