DeForest Soaries Quotes

Voting is crucial, and I don't give a damn how you look at it: there are efforts to stop people from voting. That's not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.

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.

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.

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.

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

Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

… we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read African American voter-turnout machine.

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

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.

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.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

We must stand vigilant to protect our voting access.

Republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting. What part of democracy are they afraid of? I call on Republicans at all levels of government, with all manner of ambition, to stop fear mongering about a phantom epidemic of election fraud. I'm calling for universal, automatic voter registration, every citizen in every state in the union.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

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.

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

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

No voters will be left behind.

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

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.