DeForest Soaries Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”