Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I wish to inform the Senate of something that has just happened to a civics teacher in my State of Florida who tried to help her students register to vote. It was nothing new for this teacher, Jill Cicciarelli, to be prepping 17-year-old students for the privilege and responsibility of voting in a democracy. She has been doing this for a number of years. But it turned out that when Jill organized a drive at the start of the school year to get students preregistered to vote, she ran afoul of Florida's new election law. How could that be? But, sure enough, the law, which is basically an attempt at voter suppression, causes her to face hefty fines. For what? For helping students to register to vote. As ridiculous as that sounds, that is what the law says. But there is more, unfortunately. There is a lot more. I met with Jill Cicciarelli and her students last week. They are extremely concerned, and they are extremely surprised that a good government attempt to register students so they will be ready to vote in the next election has run afoul of the law. They were not happy; but, interestingly, neither was their elected Supervisor of Elections in Volusia County who, under the law, was required to report the teacher and the students to the State authorities. The Supervisor of Elections, Ann McFall, has now publicly, openly criticized the parts of the law as being egregious and unenforceable.…”