Voter Disenfranchisement Quotes

It was white people who got Trump into office.

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student.

… the Republicans are all about suppressing votes.

Everyone should work in politics to see how horrible it is.

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

Democrats are so enraged by President Trump that they have shown their willingness to undo the votes of 63 million Americans.

Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't require forms of ID that folks don't have. We shouldn't restrict days or hours that allow working people a chance to both do their job and exercise their democratic right, and we damn well shouldn't be throwing up new obstacles midstream.

The Democratic Party tends to have this hypereducated ruling-class mentality, and we need to realize that's not making us connect with a lot of voters.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Entering politics is a fate worse than death.

I say this. If you're going to disenfranchise all of those people, some of whom have never voted before and they're 50 years old and older, but if you're going to disenfranchise all of those people, Independents, Democrats - you know, we have a lot of Democrats coming over. We have a lot of Independents coming over.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

Facts have come to light that indicate that a pivotal, close election was likely changed through voter fraud on Nov. 8, 2016: New Hampshire's U.S. Senate Seat, and perhaps also New Hampshire's four electoral college votes in the presidential election.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.

Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.

The left patronizes minorities, pretends they don't know how to vote correctly, pretends they don't have IDs, when in fact they want their votes to count, and participate in greater numbers when you assure them their votes will count.

Trump might have a populist message that resonates with some voters, but the man doesn't care about any of the people he's appealing to.

A clueless electorate is a corruptible one …

The total bogus voters in Dera Bassi might be several thousand.

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.

I have no more gifts for politics than a cow has for fox hunting, and I’m not interested in it… personally I’ve never voted and do not intend to.

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