Famous Quotes & Sayings

Now that the secret ballot is off the table, abuses that come from the peer-to-peer intimidation to sign cards are in play.

Jimmy Carter

Nevada did it this past year -- so that there can be some comparison on the part of the voter: 'This is the way I touched the screen. Did my ballot comply?' And they look at the paper ballot.

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.

She took them out and put them in a reconstituted ballot box and then continued with the election.

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.

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,

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.

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

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.

Dan Quayle is completely committed to this campaign, and we understand that the real test will occur early next year when voters cast their ballots in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary,

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The governor continues his commitment to pursue those reforms. But it's becoming increasingly clear that the way you have to do that is at the ballot box, which would ironically require more fundraising.

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,

Stuart Rothenberg

The president is not on the ballot so the only way to send a message to the government, to the White House, to Congress about the president's performance is via these congressional elections.