They took it for a test drive in Georgia in 2018 and I was there … One third of a million voters in Georgia were wiped out illegally. In fact, three hundred thousand, one hundred and thirty-four. ibid.
‘Hundreds of thousands of voters from Brooklyn went missing from the voter rolls.’ ibid. Stacey Herbert
Democrats disenfranchise each other. ibid.
2016: You elected a kind of orange-stained porcine bloated bigot … We’ve had a coup d’etat: you’re slaves now. ibid.
Five million ballots disqualified … They can’t steal all of the votes all of the time … ibid.
People didn’t see Trump as a threat. When you have basically Gestapo-kind-of-proto-death-squads grabbing people on streets, I think it’s motivating young people. ibid.
You have to have a special ID to vote in Madison, to vote in Wisconsin, not just over a regular student ID. That’s over 100,000 … You have to prove you’re in good standing. ibid.
He’s [Gore] the most qualified person in my lifetime to seek this job. 537 Votes, Clinton, Sky Documentaries 2020
Sometimes people say I’m too serious, that I talk too much substance and policy … ibid. Gore
Where Does He Belong? The battle over Elian Gonzalez sparks a debate about custody laws and what’s best for kids. ibid. Time magazine
It didn’t hurt to have your brother as the governor of Florida. ibid. dude
Florida goes for Al Gore … Phew, what a night … ibid. Dan Rather
If you ignore the votes, you ignore democracy itself. ibid. Gore
Now, to the land of the hanging chad … ibid. Dan Snow, TV news
The Republicans wanted to pull off the perfect crime. ibid. dude
Two Democratic members of Congress have asked the FBI to open an ‘immediate criminal investigation’ after Donald Trump was heard pleading with an election official to ‘find’ him some more votes in Georgia.
Representatives Ted Lieu and Kathleen Rice have written to FBI Director Christopher Wray, saying they ‘believe Donald Trump engaged in solicitation of, or conspiracy to commit, a number of election crimes’.
In a recording obtained by American media, the outgoing US president can be heard claiming there was ‘no way’ he lost in the southern state. Sky News online article 5 January 2021, ‘FBI asked to investigate after Donald Trump pleads for extra votes in Georgia’
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting. Beth Simone Noveck
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting. Charles Bukowski
‘Why do people vote Tory, asked Piglet?’
‘Some are thick as pigshit, some are crooks, some are selfish bastards, and some are all three. Others are racist xenophic wankers, some are entitled arseholes, others are inbred. The rest are human excrement, said Pooh. Tweet 24 February 2023
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. Lucy Parsons
Preoccupation with the working class vote is wrong. They’ve got nowhere else to go. Peter Mandelson, to Peter Hain 1999
I’d rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don’t want, and get it. Eugene V Debs
The British people have only ever had one chance so far to vote directly in a referendum on our relations with Europe. That was exactly 30 years ago this weekend. Michael Cockerell, How We Fell For Europe, BBC 2005
To start with two-thirds of the public wanted us out; but by the end, the figures were exactly reversed. So how did this remarkable transformation come about? It’s a tragi-comic tale of high politics and low cunning that yoked together the oddest of bed-fellows. ibid.
The Tory MP Enoch was the leader of the right-wing anti-marketeers and he was a hate figure for the Left. ibid.
Wilson had committed himself to a referendum on whether or not we should stay in the Common Market … His ministers were still deeply split. ibid.
The well-heeled Yes campaign had no such problems. ibid.
The various anti-market groups have a long history of mutual antipathy. ibid.
After months of secret preparations, the Yes campaign emerges at The Dorchester to present its face to the public. ibid.
Leading anti-marketeers included such figures as Enoch Powell, Tony Benn and Dr Ian Paisley. ibid.
Tony Benn had a point: The Sun owned by Rupert Murdoch, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph were all in those day enthusiastically pro-European and was almost all the rest of Fleet Street. ibid.
Newspapers and radio are there to make sure people vote in the right way. Play for Today: The Imitation Game, writer Ian McEwan, director Richard Eyre, Mr Raine to Cathy, BBC 1980