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DeForest Soaries

"We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary."

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"We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."

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"The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer."

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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

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"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"

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"A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies."

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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"

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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

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"To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you."

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DeForest Soaries
"We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months."

Nation

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DeForest Soaries
"When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life."

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DeForest Soaries
"Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed."

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DeForest Soaries
"What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong."

Democracy

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DeForest Soaries
"And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power."

Power

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

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DeForest Soaries
"Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind."

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DeForest Soaries
"I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries."

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DeForest Soaries
"My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them."

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DeForest Soaries
"I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote."

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