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 unde…

- Deforest Soaries

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

- Deforest Soaries

And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

- Deforest Soaries

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

- Deforest Soaries

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.

- Deforest Soaries

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 as…

- Deforest Soaries

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private...…

- Deforest Soaries

I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seem…

- Deforest Soaries

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…

- Deforest Soaries