Political Quotes

“as I think the Senator from Kentucky indicated, we were very disappointed that after working 6 months to establish a very modified, watered-down provision to help prevent fraud, the other side chose, without objection, on a party line vote, to refuse to table a motion to strike an amendment that really guts the compromise. When we began this debate, I said I thought every American understood the importance of the vote. There are two aspects to that which are involved in this bill. One is making it easier to vote for those who may have had difficulty in the past. We worked on those items and many of them went further than I and some of my colleagues would like. Coming from Missouri where we have seen significant vote fraud, which we believe may have affected close elections in our State, I said we needed to change some of the provisions of the motor voter law which permits mail-in registration and prevents the States from verifying the bone fides of the registrant. As a part of the compromise we reached over 6 months, we said one does not have to show up with a photo ID with their address on it the first time they vote after they have registered by mail; we will let them bring in or send in either a photo ID or any of a number of documents which would tend to show that they are a real person, such as a utility bill, a government check, a paycheck, bank statements. That would be supplanted under this amendment, if unamended, to say you can sign your name.”