Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Barry

The ballot this year is highly complex. We are trying to make sure that people understand the ballot. For the first time this year, it is electronically readable.

The ballot result indicates the level of dissatisfaction the staff have with the board.

The ballot measure will cost taxpayers more than it will save them. It's going to really backfire.

The ballot is very straightforward, ... You follow the arrow, you punch the location. Then you have voted for who you intend to elect.

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.

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.

Bruce Fein

You can't have two ballots that are identical ... and have (them) counted in one way in one county and another way in another county,

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.

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

This is going to be a light ballot. Every 12 years, this is the smallest ballot that goes before the voters.

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

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.

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.

Larry Sabato

The Congress reads the polls; they know that the president is not where he was once and they're on the ballot next November.

Justin Trudeau

I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.

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.

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.

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

Doc Rivers

They made it hard for us all night around the basket. I'm getting my All-Star ballot back and putting Jake on it. He was terrific.

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,