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• My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

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• Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man’s choice, and is highly prized.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

  DeForest Soaries

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• Voting is a civic sacrament.

  Theodore Hesburgh

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• When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

  DeForest Soaries

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• It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.

  Tom Stoppard

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• Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  Larry Flynt

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  Tags in Only, Right, Voting

• It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.

  Joe Baca

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  Tags in Political, Awarded, Rating, Honor, Voting

• Everyone’s entitled to express their political beliefs. I don’t presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

  Ben Affleck

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  Tags in Presume, Entitled, Voting

• When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

  Henry F. Ashurst

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• A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

  O. Henry

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• Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That’s true.

  Bill Clinton

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• Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

  Tony Snow

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• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

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• Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the less hypocritical.

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  Tags in Voting, Evil

• I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

  DeForest Soaries

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