Political Quotes

“Elections are the heart of our democracy. We cannot afford to allow another Federal election to come and go without addressing the myriad problems in our election system. We must complete action on election reform legislation. We must complete it before we adjourn for the November election. It is time for Congress to assure the American people that every vote will count in the United States of America. We do this for all of America, but African Americans are particularly sensitive on this subject, because we fought so hard for the right to vote. I can tell my colleagues in that election where we saw a database identifying so-called felons where people who had never been arrested in their lives found themselves on that list, where people could not cast their vote because they could not find their names on the polls, it was reflections of yesteryear by a different name. We cannot afford to have America not fix this election system that is obviously broken and has been demonstrated to be such. I urge my colleagues to support this motion and tell the conferees to complete their work before October 1.”