Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.
Interpretation
Voter impersonation fraud is extremely rare compared to other risks, such as being struck by lightning.
In this quote, Jason Kander highlights the absurdity of the emphasis on voter impersonation fraud, particularly as it relates to the implementation of photo ID laws. By comparing the rarity of such fraud to lightning strikes, he argues that the focus on this issue is misguided and disproportionate to the actual threat it represents, suggesting that there are more pressing concerns in the electoral system that deserve attention.
In practice
During a panel discussion on election integrity, this quote can emphasize the need to focus on more significant issues.
We can either be governed by fear - fear of immigrants, fear of Muslims, call the press the enemy of the people, tear kids away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border - or we can be governed by our ambitions and our aspirations and our desire to make the most out of all of us. And that's America at its best.
As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.
He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Politics matter, but politics can't come first. If politics come first in your life, something is wrong with you. It's a sad thing.
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.