When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
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Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.
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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.
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And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.
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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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Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
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