Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our position is that Ms. Wade has not met her burden to show that there were improper ballots that were counted here.

Stampeding everyone into all-mail ballots is a wrong decision and removes freedom of choice.

Some of the complaints are minor and others may be grave enough to cancel the results of a ballot box.

Ernest Istook

Over 30 States, including Oklahoma, are now required by Congress to print bilingual or multilingual ballots in at least some parts of those States.

Our biggest concern, our No. 1 concern, is will Hoosiers who want to cast a ballot be able to.

Requiring a full-face ballot limits the number of machines that could be used for the disabled.

I think they ought to send up all the ballots up in a unified way, ensuring the integrity of the evidence.

It is a tremendous honor for him and very well deserved. What he did as a player here was simply amazing. His mention on the initial ballot is great for our program and for this university.

Wesley Clark

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

That whole name recognition thing is huge. You need to get around the state as much as you can, giving people your card and shaking hands. I've been on the ballot once before so I'm hoping that's in the back of people's memory.

Paddy Ashdown

It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them,

Avi Rubin

I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

I think we're in excellent position to be on the ballot in November. From our experiences with voters over the last five months, we have no doubt it will pass by a large margin.

It doesn't happen so frequently that we have rules. It's just common sense. With witnesses from the candidates, they were able to gather up and put (the ballot box) back together so that they could continue and maintain the integrity of the election.

Ozzie Guillen

I don't believe that in the next round of voting I will be selected for the Hall of Fame, but just being on the ballot makes me proud.

Given the fact there are multiple individuals vying for a spot on the ballot as an independent, verifying every signature is the surest way to protect the integrity of our elections and confirm the validity of a candidate's name on the ballot.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

But a broken system in Sacramento stands in the way -- a system rigged to benefit big government labor unions who will do anything to preserve the status quo, ... Four measures on the ballot will change the way Sacramento does business, get our budget under control and make the system more accountable to you.

William Douglas

Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed.

If they don't send their ballots in, it's a 'No' vote. So you run the risk of not having any representation at all.

Carl Guardino

If the conditions are right to mount a campaign for a quarter-cent transportation sale tax ballot measure in November 2006, we will need the leadership and guidance of thoughtful elected officials such as yourself. We hope you will join us in this effort.

He needs to make an unequivocal statement that he opposes any ballot initiative that takes away the rights of gay and lesbian couples. That is unclear in his statement.

Whatever happens, we will have to have a manual count of the ballots and that could last up to two weeks.

The people can be sure that their vote will be the same as the ballot that they wrote and put in the boxes,

More black voters than white voters had their ballots discarded, no matter what kind of voting system was used. Punch card ballots cheat voters, and they are much more likely to cheat African-American voters.

Now that the secret ballot is off the table, abuses that come from the peer-to-peer intimidation to sign cards are in play.

Jimmy Carter

Nevada did it this past year -- so that there can be some comparison on the part of the voter: 'This is the way I touched the screen. Did my ballot comply?' And they look at the paper ballot.

Since there is only one race going on, counting will begin immediately, ... Generators and lanterns will provide light for the staff counting the ballots tonight.

This process actually gives the voters with returned ballots an opportunity to privately revise and then recast their ballot.

Richard Armitage

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

She took them out and put them in a reconstituted ballot box and then continued with the election.

Luckily we have a supply of paper ballots we use for absentee voting. We were able to use the ballots as backup.

Neil Kinnock

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

Scott Thompson

We are happy with it (the new ballot designation). We have no problem with it. The designation is just fine.