Political Quotes

“So that is a false argument, that it is going to cause any improvement on voter fraud. There is hardly any voter fraud. That is one thing the new election law does. What is another thing? It makes it harder if a person moves their residence to another county in Florida. As a matter of fact, if a person moves to another county and they do not register to vote in that county, but they have a voter identification card that shows an address in another county in Florida where the person came from, that person will not get a regular ballot. That person will get a provisional ballot. Sadly, what we know from the experience of provisional ballots in Florida in the 2008 Presidential election is that half of the provisional ballots were not counted. Well, what group is that going to affect? Did my colleagues hear about how young people and college students got so interested in government and politics that they went to the polls in record numbers? Where did they vote? A lot of them got interested while they were away at their colleges and universities and they registered to vote and they voted in record numbers. Don't we want to encourage that? No. Not this election law.…”