'I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker claims they can manipulate voting machines to produce desired outcomes.
- In plain terms
- They can make voting machines output whatever they want.
- What can you take from it?
- Control over voting technology can skew results.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How can we safeguard electoral technology?
- What risks arise from over‑confidence in control?
Another view
The statement may be hyperbolic or lack evidence.
More from Earl Long
'Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile …
Permalink to quote #1 'If you're with me in the first primary, you get jobs. If you're with me in the second primary, you get good government.'
Permalink to quote #3 'Someday Louisiana is going to get good government. And they ain't gonna like it.'
Permalink to quote #4
Related quotes
Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we ha…
Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin quote #1 'We were escorted out of town in a bullet-proof bus because I said a pro-IRA statement in Antrim.'
Dave MustaineDave Mustaine quote #1 Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoret…
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels quote #1