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It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system. -- Sheikh Hasina
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman. -- Robert Dallek
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. -- Michael Parenti
Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican. -- David Swanson
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures -- Geoffrey Howe
The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. -- Gloria Steinem
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered -- Roy Jenkins
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. -- Roy Jenkins
What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life. -- Henry Giroux
In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it's over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas. -- Noam Chomsky
I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently. -- Bill Shorten
US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed. -- Roseanne Barr
The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country.The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process. -- Robert A. Agresta
I do believe there needs to be an investigation of the intelligence community's findings, classified findings, in order to ensure the electoral integrity of our system moving forward. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel

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