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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. -- Walter Lippmann
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards. -- Thomas E. Mann
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. -- Gerald R. Ford
More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right. -- Patricia Ireland
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots. -- Virgil Goode
On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all. -- Jim Gerlach
I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
The ballot is stronger than bullets. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. -- Abraham Lincoln
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. -- Abraham Lincoln
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return. -- Benazir Bhutto
South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. -- Catherine Helen Spence
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. -- Abraham Lincoln
If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age. -- Pete Coors
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. -- E. Franklin Frazier
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. -- Sarah Vowell
A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties. -- Ludwig von Mises
The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office. -- John Jay Hooker
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets. -- Abraham Lincoln
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. -- Maggie Gallagher
There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls. -- Walter Reuther
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background! -- Ernestine Rose
Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots -- James Stockdale
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box. -- Charles B. Rangel
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. -- Rose Schneiderman
If ballots won't work, bullets will. -- Malcolm X
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. -- Abraham Lincoln
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody. -- David Axelrod
I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore. -- Pat Buchanan
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme. -- Avi Rubin
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. -- Fay Vincent
Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this. -- David Axelrod
Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots. -- Bob Schaffer
Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. -- Ernest Istook
There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery. -- Bob Schaffer
Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots. -- James Stockdale
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. -- Avi Rubin
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them. -- George Ayittey
The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets. -- Ronald Reagan
Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes. -- Michael Douglas
Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology. -- Khem Veasna
Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians. -- Roseanne Barr
It's impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point. -- Saeb Erekat
There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise. -- Bill Vaughan
A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not in reach, keep your ballot in your pocket. -- Malcolm X
Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation. -- Audie Cornish
But down in Florida in the early voting, there were computer glitches, confusing ballots, long lines and chaos. And when President Bush heard about this, he said, 'Mission accomplished!' -- David Letterman
There was an embarrassing moment in the White House earlier today. They were looking around while searching for George Bush's military records. They actually found some old Al Gore ballots. -- David Letterman
Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to count. Today in Florida they said, 'What? You count the ballots?' -- Jay Leno
In Halberstram's fun house, television elected John F. Kennedy in 1960 (presumably Richard J. Daley and his precinct captains were at home on election night watching the Cook County ballots being counted on television). -- Edwin Diamond
A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world. -- Ammon Hennacy

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