Famous Quotes & Sayings

The president wouldn't have carried Ohio if the issue (to ban same-sex marriage) hadn't been on the ballot driving out the base, ... not going to evaporate, they're not going to retreat, and they will be a real and influential and sustainable force.

We are doing a huge absentee ballot and voter turnout program. It is one of the largest in the history of California politics.

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.

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.

Khaled Meshaal

Our government came as a natural result from the ballots collected from election posts in Palestinian areas. It was a fair and democratic process that the entire world took notice of. The US administration should respect the free will of the Palestinian people.

That can't be the goal of any of the major parties. The people would likely punish them at the ballots for not being able to overcome their inner-party conflicts and finally form a government. They're sick of it.

That $75 million will be spent before the ballot question is even approved. If we're going to go to the ballot for parks, then we should really go to the ballot and fix the system.

Angela Ruggiero

My sister is stuffing the ballot box. I know I'd be fired. I'd expect it. But you know, that would be an interesting career move.

Phil Hare

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

We realize that a percentage of Louisiana voters will vote by absentee ballots. We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now. It is important that displaced residents understand that we will to do our part to make sure that absentee ballots are delivered and counted.

We realize that a large percentage of Louisiana voters are exercising their constitutional right to vote via absentee ballots. Those ballots are being sent through the mail, and the United States Postal Service stands ready to deliver these ballots to elections officials.

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.

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.

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.

While we do not know which candidates will be chosen as the newly elected leaders of a democratically elected government of Liberia, we do know that today Liberians voted, cast their ballots for peace and for a new Liberia,

So far, results in 64% of wards, 63% of proportional ballots and 71% of district councils have been counted, captured and audited.

These people don't have the luxury of going down to the post office and getting their ballot postmarked. And lots of times when they're trying to get these things in expeditiously, which is what the federal law calls for they, end up getting them back here without a postmark on them.

The need is immediate, but in reality the earliest we'll see something on the ballot is 2006 and that's pretty aggressive.

After that we will print the ballot papers and on February 13 the IEC will issues certificates to candidates.

Any ballot that's signed, and arrives here on time, which meant by November 17 to be counted, should be counted. It's that simple.

E. O. Wilson

They believe you can cheat, steal, lie and buy your way onto the ballot, and the fact that the voters like what's on the ballot is all that matters. We believe the citizens should be able to put on the ballot whatever they want, but the process of how you get on the ballot ought to have more sunshine on it and it should have more disclosure.

Saddam Hussein

They want to destroy the real result, ... This is why they need five days just to count the ballot papers.

Larry Klayman

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

I have testimony and written statements from over 185 judges of election, and lengthy lists of vote counting and ballot security problems.

I guess I was brain-dead at 7 in the morning, (but) I never had a front-back ballot in my life.

If there's still a need for a runoff after the ballots are counted, we will consider our legal options.

Bryan Williams

If there's any question to the propriety of accounting, we always have the ballots so they can be examined. That's something that doesn't exist with the touch-screen voting.

How can you have ... an absentee ballot if the process of getting it was in violation of the law?

In some polling stations, blank ballots totaled a quarter of the votes, and in some others, one third of the votes.

Intelligent people would save their protest for the ballot