Tom Fitton Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

You've got to jump through all kinds of hoops to vote in America.

It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.

I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.

Judicial Watch has a massive project to force states and counties across the nation to clean up their voter rolls.

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.

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'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.

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

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

Instead of continuing with his empty crusade against voter fraud, President Trump should urge his Republican colleagues in Congress to work with Democrats to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act and restore the right to vote to all American citizens.

The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.

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.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

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 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.

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic.