Polling Places Quotes

An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

People who won those states wanted to see their states in the victory column last night. They won elections in the streets and lost them in the suites.

You’re a thug. Now get out of here and keep away.

If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.

All polling places should be safe, without discrimination against any religion.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.

From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.

After Citizens United, unlimited money could go directly to a corporate entity that can tell people who to vote for, with names and polling places included.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Polling places should be so numerous as to be within easy reach of every voter … Hustings, poll clerks, and all the necessary machinery of elections, should be at the public charge.

Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.