Shaun King Quotes

You can get elected to Congress without ever talking to black voters at all, and I think that's bad for the party.

Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.

The popular choice is not elected as president.

There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.'

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all.

How … can one person be given twice or ten times the voting power of another person ... merely because he lives in a rural area.

The conception of political equality can mean only one thing—one person–one vote.

Elections, like economic competition, produce winners, but these are not necessarily the best candidates, morally speaking.

The Electoral College is an antidemocratic relic.

... elections are no longer representative.

One man shall have one vote.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

The debate is ended. Fifty percent plus one vote is all we need to govern this country.

I've lived in New York state almost my entire life, so my votes never count.

One person, one vote sounds so reasonable and - dare I say it - democratic. But the voting process in America is anything but fair and balanced.

We distrust the electronic vote here.

The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.

I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college.

The Electoral College is justified and right.

Voting in this country has essentially been relegated to a very fledging group of election officials, who receive no training and operate on shoestring budgets on one hand, and political consultants whose job is to get their candidates elected on the other. And when you have that kind of scenario, it's really hard to describe yourself as a vibrant democracy. It's an embarrassment.

Al Gore in 2000. He got a half a million more votes than George Bush and lost. How can that be? It's ridiculous. It's an elitist system. It's so they pick your President. You don't - the people - and it needs to be abolished.

Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.

The idea of red-washing or blue-washing an entire county because a few more people vote one way or the other does a disservice to the people who live there.

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.