Political Quotes

“Mr. President, folks are voting today in Florida. As a matter of fact, they have been voting for some weeks since Florida started voting by mail, which started a couple of weeks ago. They are voting in early voting--a period of time of up to 2 weeks prior to the August 28 primary. They are voting early in these elections. They are exercising their most fundamental right, which is to vote. Of course, there is so much at stake for Florida and our country in this year's elections. Last month, a Federal judge in Florida overturned a 2014 ban on early voting, and it was a ban on college campuses. Back in 2014, the legislature passed and the Governor signed into law a series of restrictions to make it harder to vote instead of easier. One of them, which was then implemented by the Division of Elections--secretary of state--was that there could not be a voting place on a college campus. Well, we have State universities, just as other States do, that have huge numbers of students. Of course, if you want to make it easier for students to vote, instead of their having to go out in the community, it is quite logical to have a place for them to vote on the campus. Well, there was an attempt in the past to ban the voting. The particular case I weighed in on a few years ago was one in which they were banning voting from the student union building at the University of Florida in Gainesville--a campus, by the way, that enrolls some tens of thousands of students.…”