Quotes by Sen. Delbert Scott

“Pay by voter registration provides incentives to get names that don?t exist - to get dead people, to sign up out of the phone books.”

“We want to make sure that voters can trust that our elections are fair, especially following the problems that were nationally reported with deceased or fictional names being used to vote in St. Louis. This legislation will help make it easy to vote, but tough to cheat.”

“Crashes in work zones are causing too many deaths and injuries of Missouri workers who are simply doing their job trying to make our roads better and safer. There is no excuse for not slowing down in construction work zones that are clearly marked, many times miles in advance. That is why we must make a concentrated effort to get drivers to slow down.”

“The core of the whole issue is to restore voter confidence in Missouri?s elections.”

“That prevents dogs from voting; that prevents dead people from voting.”

“Photo ID is the gold standard. You have to have it to drive a car, cash a check.”

“The core of the whole issue is to restore voter confidence in Missouris elections.”

“Missourians should never have to face harassment when they go to cast their vote. That is why it is important that we move campaigners further from polling places and increase the penalties if they cross the line and harass voters.”

“Im not anti-Wal-Mart, but theyre a retail institution, and historically we have not mixed the two. This is a whole sea change in the way banking and commerce is done if we allow this to happen.”

“We dont want them to go into full-service banking.”