If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President’s judicial nominees.
Voting is designed for old people.
It’s troubling that by eliminating weekend voting hours, the state of Ohio specifically banned a popular voting time of choice for minorities. In Cuyahoga County, which I represent, 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.
You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.
Not voting is disrespecting the best of what this nation stands for.
Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.
Voting third-party in 2016 meant choosing The Green Party’s Jill Stein, the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson, or Independent Candidate Evan McMullion.
As we change our systems of voting, there will always be an adjustment period and any adjustments require robust educational campaigns.
The fate of our democracy rests on our ability to protect voting rights for all citizens.
To fight for voting rights is to fight for human rights.
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
It is clear that the photo ID requirement is not a solution to a problem but is instead a political ploy to prevent traditionally disenfranchised populations from voting for the candidates of their choice.
I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they’re on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
Mr. Sessions’ conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge.
Whether we make it a condition or just through persuasion or just through popular support, whatever it takes, we really do need to shift through a system of voting where the way the Canadian public votes is the way the Canadian Parliament is formed after the election.
I believe in Britain and regardless of whether people voted to Leave or Remain, millions of people voting in record numbers showed they do too.
Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in 2012, a percentage about equivalent with 2008.
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
There’s an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he’s a member of your ethnic group.
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it’s really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
We need a modern people’s lobby that empowers all of us to choose our leaders and set our agenda. Imagine voting for a president we’re truly excited about. Imagine a government that promotes capitalism and civil rights.
Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.
With the Voting Rights Act of Virginia, our Commonwealth is creating a model for how states can provide comprehensive voter protections that strengthen democracy and the integrity of our elections.
The demands of the Civil Rights era weren’t limited to voting rights – they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of life, including housing, employment, and public accommodations.
Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don’t just vote. Know what you’re voting for, and stand by that.
I don’t think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn’t be voting. However, we shouldn’t be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.
It’s very clear that Louisiana is gonna be voting for Republicans for statewide elections going forward because that’s just where we are as a state.
The Electronic Voting Machines were tampered with in every election since 2014 to defeat the BSP.
In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest are those most adept at wielding coercion and/or those most adroit at making demagogic appeals to the voting public.
Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn’t really matter to the politicians whether or not we have them. We’re just another demographic to try and please, but there’s no point if we aren’t voting.
I think it’s difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.
By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.
Voting Liberal is a non-thing. Historically, it might be a good idea to have a Conservative government, because change is a good thing. But I don’t know that I could bring myself to vote Tory.
For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: ‘Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don’t show up at the courthouse voting day.’
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
Republicans in the South… are trying to find ways, not so much to block black and brown people from voting, but to block black and brown people from getting people they want elected, which is a far more subtle thing to do.
I’m not going to advocate for a female leader who I’m voting for solely on the basis of gender. And I think a lot of people feel that way.
Now there is a growing feeling, it’s something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay.
The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
Our MPs will take decisions on how they’re voting on a day-to-day basis. But I’m the leader of the party, and in terms of our overall strategy and how we vote on key issues, then ultimately, those decisions will be mine.
All the big revolutions, whether it’s the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people’s voices, and those things weren’t voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.
On the Republican Party platform and the major issues of the Republican Party, Charlie Dent is significantly removed from those foundational principles in his voting record.
Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.
Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father’s generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
I can’t believe that I’m MTV’s Brand New for 2018. Big love to MTV for even giving me this opportunity and to all the fans for voting.
The people of New Hampshire want someone in the U.S. Senate with clear, concise views on terrorism. They’ll judge a congressman based on the people he associates with, his voting record, and his campaign contributions.
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
