Famous Quotes & Sayings

Any registered voter eligible to vote in the election may vote by absentee ballot without stating a reason.

The bottom line is that we want candidates on the ballot in the elections that support the people's right to vote. We want the city's voters to decide.

Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.

Bruce Sutter

As long as you're on the ballot, you have a chance. Just being on the ballot is such a great honor.

No serviceman on the frontline overseas can go get his ballot postmarked. I don't think it's reasonable for us to think that we should force him to do that or (we will) not count his ballot.

The situation where a political party can file a party ballot on the condition that women candidates take up no less than 30% positions on it is quite normal, I think.

Greg Nickels

A February ballot is too late for the taxpayers,

So much for a secret ballot not controlled by the NHLPA,

Tony Blair

put their cross on their ballot paper for continued economic stability in the coming years and to put schools and hospitals first.

The school board did a pretty good job of massaging the ballot language. They're deceivers and you get sucked in.

The worst case scenario is for both plans to go on the ballot and confuse voters so nothing gets done again.

Rose Schneiderman

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

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

This is going to be most expensive ballot in California history.

This is a two-person race. We're going to get the signatures, and she's going to be on the ballot in November.

Neil Newhouse

This is not an informed or a pushed ballot test.

The whole effort, whether through the bill or the ballot initiative, is to level the playing field a bit, because it's been very lopsided.

This election is going to change everything, because everyone realizes now that the only way to take power is through the ballot box. This election is going to unite all Iraqis.

This process actually gives the voters with returned ballots an opportunity to privately revise and then recast their ballot.

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.

an easy way for the City Council to pass a tax, and there's nothing the public can do about it until it comes time for them to go to the ballot box and vote for aldermen.

Essentially, all of these competing plans that were headed for the June ballot were very popular.

Chris Jones

Brennan Lowery was accidentally left off of the ballot for second-year vice president through no fault of his own. He completed all requirements.

Being voted into the Hall of Fame is the biggest individual honor in baseball. Being voted in on the first ballot is what cements your place in history as one of the greatest to ever play the game. There are likely to be many voters that will think twice about placing Bonds in that elite company, especially when you consider he's never been the most popular individual with the media.

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,

Every dollar spent on these campaign promises, on these two ballot measures, is another dollar that could be spent on a true solution to some of the city's real problems, to the deficit, to the potholes, to park maintenance.

This office is required to validate the signatures of Texans who sign a petition for an independent candidate, and given the fact there are multiple individuals vying for a spot on the ballot as an independent, verifying every signature is the surest way to protect the integrity of our elections and confirm the validity of a candidate's name on the ballot.

Sonny Perdue

We are very supportive of a paper ballot component.

Rick Berman

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

There could not have been a more decisive outcome of this ballot or a more decisive vote in favor a strike.

John Burns

We will also have paper ballots to help with the transition. We will be fully electronic touch-screen voting in November for the fall general election.

We insisted on getting on the ballot by petition, because ours is a candidacy of the people and not of big money. We intend to represent the interest of the people and not the multinational corporations and banks.