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Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens. Daniel Kahneman

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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. DeForest Soaries

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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. DeForest Soaries

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. Dick Gregory

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The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born. Douglas Brinkley

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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it. Eddie Bernice Johnson

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I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines. Eddie Vedder

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A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. Eileen Myles

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It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth. Eleanor Clift

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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. Elizabeth Flock

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Internet voting is surely coming. Though online ballots cannot be made secure, though the problems of voter authentication and privacy will remain unsolvable, I suspect we'll go ahead and do it anyway. Ellen Ullman

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The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface. Ellen Ullman

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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. Evan Osnos

It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a powerful voting bloc, no question, but they're liberal as well as conservative - and they're made of Latinos, blacks, whites. Franklin Graham

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy. Gail Collins

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In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies. Gary Hamel

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I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don't believe in. If you believe in the third party, that's the guy you need to voice for. That's how you change things. Gary Johnson

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Voting for a politician is very different then saying you like somebody or don't like somebody. Georgina Bloomberg

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