Quotes About Voting

I've voted in a Republican primary in the past. That's something unique to Texas and a handful of other states, that we don't register as Republicans or Democrats. We vote in whichever primary we think it's more critical at the time.

I never voted for a Democrat at the state or national level.

My parents voted conservative for as long as I could remember, so it was an easy decision when I registered at 18 to register as a Republican. In fact, I've often told people I was under the impression that everybody voted Republican.

People voted because of the trust they had in me, but Rangasamy betrayed us.

If you go back to his positions, his papers, his speeches, the way he has voted, he is clearly an anti-Semite, anti-Israel individual. Words matter and actions matter more. Keith Ellison would be a disaster for the relationship between the Jewish community and the Democratic Party.

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

While I am a single-issue voter, I certainly don't live a single-issue existence. Many causes affect my family and me, and I intend to be a voice for those as well.

Requirements for an ID are not voter suppression - they are just commonsense steps to ensure people don't vote if they are ineligible, don't vote using false identities and don't vote more than once.

I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

We forget that the main constitutional responsibility of the MLAs and MPs that we vote for is law making, and oversight of the executive to implement those laws. During my husband's 2014 election campaign, I did not hear a single voter mention this aspect of the legislator's role.

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

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.

Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.

The Republican playbook is voter suppression.

A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.

Sadly, voter suppression is not a thing of the past.

Every voter has a right to criticise a government and comment on its functioning.

Voter ID laws are the most potent form of voter suppression legislation.

Voter suppression takes different forms.

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

The ability for every legal, registered voter to participate in our democratic process should not be a partisan issue.