"we had a situation in a Maine election recently where we had very early voting."
"I urge the Acting Chairman to talk with his leadership."
"Voting is our most fundamental democratic right."
"I think one important function this Commission can provide is as a clearinghouse of best practices from across the country."
"On behalf of the Rules Committee, I want to thank you for your testimony this morning."
"The EAC has the opportunity to be able to provide important resources for State and local election officials."
"I just want to take this occasion to thank you and the people at GPO that go to work every day quietly, do their job in a quality manner serving the public in responsive and creative ways."
"Well, one example would be voting patterns by hour so that you knew how to staff and you could staff to the demand."
"I think that probably the two most important elections in the last several years have been Iraq and Ohio."
"This is an important issue. It is one that is not going to go away, and I believe that it is going to continue to bedevil us for some time unless we can find some resolution."
"What we have now is it is like the legends of the Trojan War where the Greeks and the Trojans fought each other, but the gods were fighting in the skies."