Famous Quotes & Sayings

The ballot did two things. One was to indicate teams that you thought ought to be considered - 1 to 100 or as many as you thought ought to be considered. Another was teams that you thought ought to be in the tournament, period.

The ballot did not take place on the date he claimed.

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.

James Johnson

It prompts the voters to go through the entire ballot and at least they ready every page.

It's not normal to have these ballots there.

The big picture of this is public money shouldn't be used to influence the outcome of a ballot campaign. And that's what happened here.

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

Eliseo Medina

If Congress fails to act, we will deliver our message in the ballot boxes come November. We will continue to march and speak out until the President signs a comprehensive immigration bill into law that works for all working people in this country.

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.

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

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

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.

They will have to provide documentation for these expenditures and show they are appropriate. They need to provide information on who they spent the money on, and for what committee, candidate or ballot question.

It's going to make it tougher for us to get something on the June ballot when things keep changing like this.

It's on the ballot to refine a previously passed amendment.

It's tactically smart. He knows he's not going to get on the ballot through the convention and he doesn't want to give it any credibility.

A ballot statement is supposed to be about your education and qualifications. It's not supposed to be a hit piece.

About one out of five voters cast their ballots for Milosevic in Serbia's parliamentary elections in December, making his Socialist Party the main opposition group,

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

The city has not yet committed to putting a millage on the ballot to support funding for the project,

The city didn't feel it was appropriate to broadcast the hearings. They felt it could create a circus atmosphere. We were hoping everybody would get to watch it - that's the best way for people to know what happens in these hearings and make a decision based on that. It's the best thing for the citizens, especially if the council's going to lean toward pushing this toward a ballot measure.

Andrew Ferguson

The CFMEU will also respect the outcome of the ballot and continue to extend goodwill to the club.

This is a gross injustice. Boca Raton is one of the best-run cities in Florida and yet our mayor and council members are the lowest-paid in the region. We should put this issue on the ballot because this is the right thing to do.

This is all a very politicized process. They're going to need to go out and shop this measure, and they want to be sure the ballot title is optimal. And they have opponents who want to be sure the ballot title is optimal for their purposes.

You could never put this on a ballot and make sense of it.

The man ran in, grabbed the ballot box, then threw it under the wheels of his truck and took off ... the box was flat as a pancake.

The Liberian people have made their choice through the ballot today, and we are all obliged to respect the choice made by the men and women of this nation,