Voter Suppression Quotes

• Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

  Bernie Sanders

  Media, Issues, Democracy

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• Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Law, Names, Support

  "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Evil, Voters, Way

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Republicans win when people are demoralized and you have a small voter turnout, which by the way is why they love voter suppression. I believe that our campaign up to now has shown that we can create an enormous amount of enthusiasm from working people, from young people, who will get involved in the political process and which will drive us to a very large voter turnout.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Winning, People

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

  Rush Limbaugh

  Depressing, Public Opinion, Tools

  "'Skewed' Polls, ACORN, And Right-Wing Delusion" by Eric Boehlert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Kids, Issues

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.

  Riane Eisler

  People, News, Voters

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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