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DeForest Soaries

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

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Donna Grant

"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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Donna Grant

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

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Donna Grant

"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"

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Donna Grant

"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."

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Donna Grant

"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

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Donna Grant

"Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness."

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Donna Grant

"All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying."

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Donna Grant

"We've all been in the middle of a conversation and the person with whom we are speaking breaks eye contact, appears distracted, glazes over, or looks elsewhere. Their simple eye movement can quickly break down communications by making us feel ignored, dismissed, or rejected. For some, it may be accidental and unintentional, while for others, avoiding eye contact is on purpose."

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Donna Grant

"In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note."

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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
"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."

Heart

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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."

Life

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DeForest Soaries
"The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members."

Government

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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."

Confidence

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

People

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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
"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."

Government

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DeForest Soaries
"It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously."

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

Life

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