Political Quotes

“As the lead sponsor of the Senate bill, I am pleased to reassure the Senator from Arkansas that State and local election officials would not have to place an interactive computer containing voter registration information at each polling place to meet the requirements of this legislation. As my colleague from Arkansas indicated, States could met this particular requirement if they had an interactive computer containing the States' voter registration list at each county clerk's office. I and others who crafted this language were aware that polling places in Arkansas and in many other States lack phone service and therefore it would be impractical to set up a computer network or the like at each polling location during every Federal election.”