Political Quotes

“we have just heard some inaccurate statements about the underlying amendment. Nobody says you have to go to a copy center. Any antifraud provisions do not hold off in this bill until 2004. They are effective upon the signing of the bill. The provisional voting provision in this bill that says it will not take effect until 2004 was not something I wrote. I will be happy to take an amendment to say it is effective right away as well, because 39 States have provisional voting and we need to clean it up so it works for all 50 States. It is important to note that, believe it or not, the current system offers few protections to States that want to maintain clean rolls. The Senator from Oregon said we need to make sure registrations are accurate at the beginning. Believe it or not, motor voter actually prohibits States from requiring verification of the cards. Registration by mail makes it much easier to put fake names on voter lists and then voting by mail makes it very easy to vote these names illegally. The opponents of my anti-fraud provision claim the bill will disenfranchise millions. At the same time, several States, including West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Michigan, Illinois, Nevada, and Louisiana, have tougher standards--tougher than in this bill. I would like to see them as tough as these States'. No one has come forward and shown that these States actually deprive voters of the right to vote on any level, much less on the level claimed here.”