As they see it.

"I hope this don't get me back in prison. I can't afford that."

--Arthur Wilkerson who registered to vote while on parole for assault. As many as 6,000 felons ineligible to vote are on the Colorado registration roles. Quoted in the Denver Post.

"If all this is so clear, why can't the legislature take it into account? All you have to do is bring these facts to the attention of the legislature."

--U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia asked the question after an attorney for a 17-year-old Missouri death row inmate pointed out the rarity of juvenile executions and psychological studies proving teenage immaturity. Quoted in The New York Times.

"I see a lot of them on 1-95. I see them everywhere now."

--South Carolina resident Eric Antman to The Island Packet, on the number of roadside memorial crosses he sees, including ones visible from his home. The trend is causing some legislatures to consider regulations.

"There was a time we expected we would lose some members of our high school class because of a car crash, but people are understanding that it doesn't have to be that way."

--The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's chief Jeffrey Runge to The Washington Post about statistics that fewer young drivers died in accidents in 2003 than the year before, but still 429 more than a decade earlier.

"These numbers blow the 2000 numbers out of the water."

--Meredith Imwalle, communications director of the National Association of Secretaries of State, to the Christian Science Monitor on the increase of new voter registrations in the United States.

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