Quotes about Voting Law

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

Rand Paul

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

John Dunne

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

Eric Schneiderman

My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.

Al Sharpton

I just released an op-ed in the "Washington Post" that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card, a picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They'll have one to vote.

James B. Clark

Women will vote by 1917.

The speaker predicted the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, but was off by three years.

Marty Meehan

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.

Robert Kennedy

The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Spencer Bachus

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.

Adam Cohen

Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

Lyman Trumbull

The right to vote ... depends on the legislation of the various States

America is almost unique among nations in that the methods of elections are different in each state, but at the time even the right to vote was uniquely controlled by the states—even for Federal officials. Even in modern times individual states have controlled the right to vote in many instances. For example in some states convicted felons may not vote while in others they can.

Wisconsin

Women may vote in any election pertaining to school matters.

Having passed this law, the state legislature turned down subsequent efforts to expand the female voting franchise, and Wisconsin women had to wait until all American women finally got the right to vote.

Voting Law Quotes