Kenneth Blackwell Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.

Every election in America has some fraud and some human error.

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.

Mass mailing ballots to voters depends on voter registration rolls that are notoriously error-ridden.

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.

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

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

How can we tell our children if we do not make reasonable efforts to count every vote.

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.

I am very confident that in 2008, people's votes will count. I don't think they did in 2004. I think in 2008, they will.

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

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.

While the United States is a prime example of fair elections, there is room for improvement, starting with passing voter identification laws across the country.

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.

Voter confidence depends on the clean elections.

We distrust the electronic vote here.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.