Political Quotes

“Mr. President, like so many Americans, I stayed up late last Tuesday night to watch the election returns come in. It was 11:38 pm on the East Coast when the Associated Press called the election for President Obama, but at that late hour, Andre Murias, an 18-year-old first-time voter in Miami-Dade County, Florida, was still waiting in line to cast his ballot. Andre had been in line at the South Kendall Community Church for nearly five hours by the time he voted, just before midnight. Five hours--that is appalling. Yet, some Florida voters waited even longer--as much as 7 or 8 hours--during the State's condensed early-voting period. Rashell Hobbs, another first-time voter, waited for five hours in Chesapeake, Virginia. ``This is just horrible,'' Rashell said. ``There is no reason it should take this long.'' Rashell, I agree. Voting machine irregularities were experienced in States across the country by voters of both political parties. In Colorado, voters said they checked the box on the touchscreen panel to vote for Mitt Romney, but that the machine kept switching their pick to President Obama, while in Pennsylvania, voters reported the same problem in reverse, that their selection of President Obama was registered as a vote for Governor Romney. It wasn't just new technology that caused issues. Poll-watchers in Davidson County, Tennessee, could only stand by as would-be voters saw the long line of people waiting to cast their ballots and drove away.…”