Political Quotes

“on another matter entirely, voting rights, the story of American democracy is a long and messy one, full of contradictions and halting progress. It was a century and a half after our founding before women got the right to vote, another half century before African Americans could enjoy the full rights of citizenship. It took mighty movements and decades of fraught political conflicts to achieve even those basic dignities and establish the United States as a full democracy worthy of the title. But any American who thinks that today, in 2021, that fight is over-- that the fight for voting rights is over--is sorely and, unfortunately, sadly mistaken. In the wake of the most recent election, an election that the former President has repeatedly lied about and claimed was stolen, more than 253 bills in 43 States have been introduced to tighten voting rules under the pernicious, nasty guise of election integrity. In Iowa, the State legislature voted to cut early voting by 9 days. Polls will close an hour earlier. And they voted to tighten the rules on absentee voting, which so many--the elderly, the disabled, the frail--depend on. In Wisconsin, Republican lawmakers have proposed limiting ballot drop boxes to one per municipality--a municipality of hundreds of thousands, and a tiny one gets the small one. I wonder why. I wonder why.…”