Former Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in mid-June in a discussion with former NATO Secretary Anders Rasmussen and Politico’s Ryan Heath, insinuated that the Republican Party traditionally suppresses the vote of non-Republican voters and warned that it could precipitate a “revolution” in the United States. Kerry stated, “If people don’t have adequate access to the ballot, I mean that’s the stuff on which revolutions are built. If you begin to deny people the capacity of your democracy to work, even the Founding Fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, we have an inherent right to challenge that.”
Kerry stated that the voter suppression affected the Bush-Gore 2000 election, his own campaign against George W. Bush in 2004, and the Stacey Abrams gubernatorial candidacy in Georgia as he said, “I’m also concerned about something that affected my campaign in 2004; it affected Al Gore in 2000, and it has obviously affected other campaigns in our country in the last few years, including most recently in Georgia, where certain officials of a particular party purposefully make it difficult for the other party to vote where they control those matters.”
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