Quote of the Day 3/26/2015

“In Oklahoma and across the United States, we had this frantic, contrived debate about voter fraud. We’re finding out … that all of the arguments for the need for these laws were completely conflated and false. It was all designed to attack a problem that did not exist. I think the lawmakers of Oklahoma looked up and correctly surmised that they could march to the past with a new version of Jim Crow, or they could look to the future and the inherent intelligence and ability of the Oklahoma voter to go to the polls and cast a ballot.”

-Keith Gaddie, head of the University of Oklahoma Political Science Department, speaking about bills moving through the Legislature to encourage voter participation in Oklahoma (Source)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gene Perry worked for OK Policy from 2011 to 2019. He is a native Oklahoman and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. in history and an M.A. in journalism.

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