Political Quotes

“I rest my case. Signature verification does not work. I urge people to support the motion I will offer. Obviously this provision threatens only one thing the way it is now, fraud. It could mean increased work for those who administer elections, but that is a very small price to pay for fair and honest elections. Make no mistake about it, this amendment is the poison pill of election reform. The bill is a carefully crafted compromise agreed to by all 5 cosponsors, including the Senator from New York. There has been a lot of misinformation about this anti-fraud provision. It applies only to a small number of voters who register by mail and vote for the first time. As Senator Bond made clear, this is the prime area of voter fraud. When we negotiated this compromise in December, none of us thought that it was too much to ask that voters be real, live people. Senator Bond had a bill that would have required first-time mail registrants to vote in person and show a photo ID. He agreed to compromise on that requirement, to reach the agreement we have before us today. Mail registrants who vote for the first time now have many options to identify themselves. Photo ID is only one of them.”