Famous Quotes & Sayings

He needs to make an unequivocal statement that he opposes any ballot initiative that takes away the rights of gay and lesbian couples. That is unclear in his statement.

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

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.

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.

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,

The key issue is the degree to which certain Sunnis can meet their demands through the ballot box rather than through a resort to arms.

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.

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.

The ballot was a secret ballot for good reason and the way in which members voted should remain confidential to each and every member, except in the most extraordinary of circumstances.

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.

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.

Donna Howard is just the tip of the iceberg. We're going to win races all up and down that ballot in November.

John Burns

Eventually this will save us money by eliminating the old paper ballots. It's always been hard to estimate how many people will vote and plan to have enough ballots printed. That problem should be eliminated. We've had a trash barrel full of ballots left over because we had too many ballots printed and then have a low voter turnout.

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.

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.

Katherine Harris

The Department of State has now reviewed the Palm Beach County ballot. Clay Roberts, director of the Division of Elections, and Deborah Kearney, general counsel for the Department of State, have determined that the design and layout of the ballot does conform to the law of the state of Florida,

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