Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've basically been forced into the paper ballot situation, it's not something we want to do.

We're not actually sure how many ballots were affected.

With the paper-based system you can see the ballots being marked, you can see them going into a ballot box, if you have good laws you can go watch them count the ballots, and with electronic voting all of that stuff is hidden inside the machines.

Larry Klayman

Ultimately, we may want to see all the ballots because we want to count them,

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

Elliott Abrams

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

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.

There is a likelihood that will happen. I would say that it's better -- most likely than not that it will be on the May ballot, But it won't be on the ballot where you vote for the house of delegates or whatever, it'll be a separate piece of paper.

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

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.

This strikes me as Round 1 in a five-part drama. I'd be very surprised if something does not end up on the ballot in either June or November.

Up and down the beaches, everyone is letting their commissions know that we don't want this and if you don't stop it, you won't be here any more. They went to the ballot and showed people what they thought.

John Payne

We've never had so many ballots with so many problems,

If power lies more and more in the hands of corporations rather than governments, the most effective way to be political is not to cast one's vote at the ballot box, but to do so at the supermarket or at a shareholders' meeting. When provoked, corporations respond.

We are looking closely at specimens of the ballots found at the dump, to check whether these are real ballots.

David Boies

There are ballots that the machine cannot read but from which voter intent can be discerned by manual review.

Vote buying is part of the case, but the absentee-ballot interference is, to me, much more sinister. It involves forging names, the theft of ballots from the post office, and voting (on behalf of) people who never even see the ballot.

Abraham Lincoln

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary

Pat Riley

When you're casting your ballots for Defensive Player of the Year or All-Defensive Team, there's no doubt. I think people forget about what he's done. He's second in the league in blocks and he only plays 16 or 18 minutes per game. He's really a factor for us. I thought he was the difference tonight.

Tipper Gore

I really don't sit here and dream what life in the White House will be like. I just can't go beyond the point when the people go to the ballot box with all that power.

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.

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.

Fay Vincent

Nobody has more regard for Buck than I do. We're old friends. So I'm disappointed he wasn't elected. Yet, the ballots were secret. I have no idea who voted, and it's impossible to know what their reasons were.

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.

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.

Fay Vincent

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

Phil Hare

What if, say, somebody doesn't get a ballot in time or it gets lost in the mail?

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