Election Reform Quotes by DeForest Soaries

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DeForest Soaries has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less…
• Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
• I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from…
• When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources…
• We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when…
• When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball…
• And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in…
• Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote…
• I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house…
• The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled…
• I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.
• We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed…

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