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" A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act. "
James Forman, Jr.
" According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules. "
Jeff Miller
" Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them. "
Mimi Kennedy
" A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting. "
Jay Griffiths
" All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will. "
Goodluck Jonathan
" All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's voices, and those things weren't voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting. "
Lupe Fiasco
" A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good. "
La'Porsha Renae
" Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service. "
Chen Shui-bian
" Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done. "
Elijah Cummings
" American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians. "
Timothy Morton
" American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. "
Marshall McLuhan
" Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule. "
Rick Perlstein
" Any New Yorker who even thinks of voting for Ted Cruz should have their head examined, Really, here's a guy who refused to sign onto the 9/11 health care act for the cops and firemen. Here's a guy who talks about New York values. "
Peter T. King
" Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic. "
Larry Wilmore
" As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting. "
Sandra Day O'Connor
" As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth. "
Jeff Greenfield
" As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples. "
Wendy Davis
" As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision. "
Colin Powell
" As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc. "
Joshua A. Tucker
" As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country. "
Katherine Harris
" As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
" As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting. "
Adam Cohen
" As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. "
Karl Rove
" As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions with the government, including voting, can be done securely online, and our 'e-residents' can incorporate and run their businesses in Estonia without ever having to set foot here. "
Kersti Kaljulaid
" As we look at Hollywood and the controversy around the Oscars, it goes back to the voting block and the lack of people who come from that culture. For example, the NWA movie is a fantastic, fantastic movie. You need people who can look at a piece of art like that and understand the artistry in it. "
Troy Carter
" A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. "
Eileen Myles
" Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. "
Jay Griffiths
" Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind. "
DeForest Soaries
" But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.' "
Howie Carr
" By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind. "
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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