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

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.