Voting Quotes - Page 26

• We really are, we represent, the core of basic American community values. And the name of the game is getting the word out, you know, and they are quaking in their boots, which, of course, is why they will not pass ranked choice voting.

  Jill Stein

  Games, Names, Choices

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The Russians could not have had any impact whatsoever on voting in America, either how they were cast or how they were counted.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Impact, America, Casts

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In 2012, Hispanics were 10 percent of the electorate, underperforming their share of the voting-age population. Mitt Romney got 21 percent of their vote, and [Donald] Trump has been polling much lower than that.

  Mara Liasson

  Voting Age, Population, Vote

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is no evidence.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, America, Outcomes

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In my [Impossibility] theorem I'm assuming that the information is a ranking. Each voter can say of any two candidates, I prefer this one to this one. So then we have essentially a ranking. It's a list saying this is my first choice. This is my second choice. Each voter, in principle, could be asked to give that entire piece of information. In the ordinary Plurality Voting, say as used in electing Congressmen, we generally only ask for the first choice. But, in principle, we could ask for more choices.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Two, Giving, Choices

  Source: electology.org

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• One way of looking at Impossibility Theorem is that we proposed some criteria for what a good system should be: what is it you want from a voting system, and impose some conditions. And then ask: can you have a voting system that guarantees that?

  Kenneth Arrow

  Guarantees That, Want, Way

  Source: electology.org

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• Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're voting for Trump out of white solidarity or out of frustration that they're, quote, unquote, "losing their country". And my concern with that is that it sort of reduces the condition of the Trump voter to one of pure ignorance. And I think it's far more complicated.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Country, Ignorance, Frustration

  "Professor Weighs In On Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Uninformed Voter Comment". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 6, 2016.

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• There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Long, People, Black

  "Professor Weighs In On Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Uninformed Voter Comment". Interview with Steve Inskeep, wksu.org. September 6, 2016.

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• I think people that are, you know, voting in the blind are doing a disservice to America by not being better informed.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Thinking, America, People

  "Abdul-Jabbar Admires Athletes Who Make An Activist Statement". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, kuow.org. September 2, 2016.

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• I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

  David Swanson

  Children, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

  Gloria Steinem

  Effectiveness, Problem, Politician

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• It wouldn't have occurred to me that while this old white man, which is to say me, was voting for Hillary Clinton, white women were choosing an overt misogynist [Donald Trump] over the first woman president. Someone will have to explain that one to me someday.

  Steve Erickson

  Men, White Man, President

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And he [Franklin Roosevelt] got the votes of every southern white voting state in the country and wouldn't have been elected president once, let alone four times, if he hadn't. Now, at the same time he acquired over the years a reputation for being sympathetic to blacks, and he got their votes, heaven knows.

  William A. Rusher

  Country, Years, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.

  Ari Shapiro

  Moving, Years, Oil

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You know, others keep saying that there are too many candidates in the race, and once it gets down to a two-person race that Trump can't get above that 30 to 35 percent that he's gotten both in the polling and in the elections and that the others will start pulling out that 65 the 70 percent not voting for Tromp. But there's absolutely no evidence that all of that vote will go to another candidate.

  Cokie Roberts

  Two, Race, Election

  "Politics In The News: Clinton, Trump Big Winners: Bush Drops Out". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, David Greene, www.npr.org. Morning Edition.

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• As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.

  Ira Kaplan

  Song, People, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens to him [Donald Trump]. So that's got to make you think before voting for him.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Cheer, Thinking, People

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Once I heard about the electronic voting machines, and how they weren't gonna be audited, and no one would be able to go in and verify what the votes were. And then the exit poll thing - wasn't that kind of weird? How the exit polls didn't match up to the voting... I feel like, you know, they dropped a couple lines of code in here and there, and swung a couple states in their direction.

  Aaron McGruder

  Couple, Vote, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Young people voted [on Brexit] to remain by a considerable margin, but were outvoted. They were voting for their future, yet it has been taken from them.

  Tim Farron

  Taken, People, Young

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm a member of the Recording Academy and I see the way it works and even with the whole voting process it's broken down into specific categories. There are Pop categories and Dance and Rock and Metal and Film and Score and everything else. Basically when you are voting you are urged not to vote in the category that you don't know anything about.

  John Petrucci

  Rocks, Broken, Way

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive freedom and religious freedom and the Voting Rights Act.

  Patrick Leahy

  Religious, Rights, Environmental

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Safety Zone, People, Needs

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Gentleman, Firsts

  "Matt Lauer Presses Chelsea Clinton On What Her Father Would Be Called if Hillary Elected". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 28, 2016.

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• If you don't have voter ID, you can just keep voting and voting and voting.

  Donald Trump

  Voters, Voter Id, Ifs

  "What’ll Republicans Do When Trump Says Hillary Stole The Election?". Washington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2016.

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• In fact, in some countries there are actually voting drives conducted in prison! But here in the U.S., we seem to take the idea of democracy a bit less seriously and people are denied the right to vote not only when they are in prison, but also upon release in many states.

  Michelle Alexander

  Country, Ideas, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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