Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

John Payne

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think a lot of people will get the ballots and not understand how to vote.

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.

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,

P. J. O'Rourke

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

Rick Berman

The reason that the law is set up with secret ballots is that it's too easy to compromise someone's intention.

We're not making any decision about anything until the ballots are counted. We can't talk about the next race until we are finished with this one.

We're receiving applications, but we're not sending out ballots because we don't have them yet.

We had about 15 people come and once we started showing them how to use it, they were very, very positive about it. It was fun for them and they actually enjoyed casting ballots on it. No one had anything negative to say after they had tried it and I think that surprised them.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Steny Hoyer

Today, the U.S. Congress declares America's independence from hanging chads, butterfly ballots and a broken outdated election system that nearly provoked a constitutional crisis two years ago.