You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.
In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.
The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.
Conservatism, when presented in full strength at the ballot, wins at the ballot.
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.
We can have all the walkouts we want, but if we don't walk to that ballot box and make our voices heard, these politicians aren't going to listen.
