Voting Quotations | Page 4

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

Vote wisely, even if that means not voting at all.

A lot of people voting for Pat Buchanan say they are doing so to send a message. Apparently that message is, 'Hey, look at me, I'm an idiot.'

As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.

That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

The rankings of attendance and voting participation tell citizens how often their legislator was there to represent them. The effectiveness rankings tell citizens how effective their legislator was when he or she was there. The surveys hold a mirror up to the Legislature and the rankings are the reflection.

Wanna talk about fair? Try all the people who are voting for Kelly just because she's on their favorite soap opera.

Vote buying is part of the case, but the absentee-ballot interference is, to me, much more sinister. It involves forging names, the theft of ballots from the post office, and voting (on behalf of) people who never even see the ballot.

Vote for us or for any other Arab party.

The question as we saw it at the time was not whether a woman should have the right to choose but who should pay once that choice was made. Today, I wouldn't vote that way.

The question is: Can Ciro turn out the vote on the South Side? That will decide the election.

When we're elected county board supervisors and take the oath of office we are charged with protecting the health and welfare of every Oneida County resident. This is a safety issue, I'm voting yes.

We are going to work very hard to ensure as high a turnout as possible. We're going to try to set up a voting station at O-Hill on Thursday and we're going to stuff mailboxes.

We are part of Iowa's initiative to celebrate voting,

The overall concern is that 40 percent of the American people don't vote. Secondly, that there's a great deal of doubt in our country about the integrity of the electoral process. Those are the two basic issues. What can we do to address them? Obviously we want to have more access by Americans to the voting booth. And secondly, we want to make sure that the electoral process has integrity -- that it is not shot through with fraud.

We are not going to compromise the Voting Rights Act.

Whether it is by consensus or by vote, either way it ends up in New York.

The decision to extend voting into a third day is good news for those in Harare. Between 3,500 and 4,000 people are still waiting. It is also good news for opposition candidates.

We want the public to have a hands-on experience with these new electronic voting machines so we've planned several demonstrations throughout the county.

When you add impediments to voting for no reason, it tends to discriminate against the poor and minorities.

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.

The crisis began with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, which offered voting statistics and automatically proclaimed the Liberal candidate

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, it did not redefine voting.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.

In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.

I say that now we see a lot of hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and the Latino community, but we have a very powerful weapon. And that is our vote. This is the way we can get even with all of the politicians who are insulting us and saying terrible things about our community - by voting them out. And get the good ones. Vote them in.

We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

The Hispanic population grew by 4.7 percent last year, while blacks expanded by 1.5 percent and whites by a paltry 0.3 percent. Hispanics cast 6 percent of the vote in 1990 and 12 percent in 2000. If their numbers expand at the current pace, they will be up to 18 percent in 2010 and 24 percent in 2020. With one-third of Hispanics voting Republican, they are the jump ball in American politics. As this vote goes, so goes the future.

The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of the doctrine you both agree in: and this makes it impossible to imagine whence this congruity between you arises. "To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

I vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away Social Security from those who paid into it.

With a 'C' corporation, you can easily give different heirs different amounts of stock, or different type of stock -- voting shares to one person, non-voting shares to another, ... There's much more flexibility.

While residents in Maryland's capital city have a vote in Congress, I am leading the fight for residents in the nation's capital to get full voting representation in Congress. The fight continues.

We don't want to get rid of paper ballots no matter what we're accused of. Some people are adamant that they want to keep paper ballots. Having the system in place would allow them to do so and not use an electronic voting machine if they do not wish to.

This report brings to light the role mutual funds play in enabling excessive compensation and helps investors determine which ones are committed to shareholder value and merit their business. The time is now for mutual funds to use their voting power in the interest of shareholders to tie executive pay to actual job performance.

There has been an overall belief that if you engage the kids in the voting process and role as a voting citizen, it will rub off on the parents. The parents will become more active voters. Kids Voting places an emphasis on turning kids into lifetime voters when they reach 18.

There has to be a delineation between campaign activity and official activity, ... If I issue a press release that says Mayor Smith will appear and cut the ribbon at the new high school, that is different than saying Mayor Smith is running for re-election, please vote for Mayor Smith.

We need to do something about antiquated voting machines, ballots that confuse rather than clarify, and overcrowded polling places.

We keep pushing the envelope on ticket prices and I think it's finally gone beyond the pale a little bit. Consumers are voting with their wallets and they're keeping them in their pockets.

You know, others keep saying that there are too many candidates in the race, and once it gets down to a two-person race that Trump can't get above that 30 to 35 percent that he's gotten both in the polling and in the elections and that the others will start pulling out that 65 the 70 percent not voting for Tromp. But there's absolutely no evidence that all of that vote will go to another candidate.

You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

The Republican-controlled House voted to repeal the healthcare bill. If that goes well, they'll see what they can do about this whole 'women voting' thing.

I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.

I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.

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!'

In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

Models: I'm not voting for you for any stupid magazine list! If you were really that Hot you wouldn't have to beg the world to stuff the ballot.

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.

When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: ''I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.''

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

Women voting in the community outnumber the men. We have to realize that we hold the power.

Women will win in a situation where there is no vote-in. Women are women?s worst enemies. This should somewhat negate both the regional slant and the bias against women.

We'll be doing a number of different things to make sure the automated voting isn't counted in this next tally.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

While many polling stations around the country opened late -- and maintaining the secrecy of the vote was not always achieved -- polling procedures were generally followed by election officials.

There is no place in our democracy for faulty voting equipment, long lines at the polls, untrained poll workers and any forms of chads,

We're aware that voting is obligatory. Let's see if they can collect fines from 5 million Peruvians.

When you think four years ago Taliban were here, women were being stoned to death at halftime at football games, now you have women running polling centers and women voting and men voting and, I think, each one voting for some of the others as well.

Until 15 May when voting started, the picture was positive. After that day we had good and negative sides,

Westmoreland County, under what's provided by federal law, has to change their voting machines anyway. What it boils down to is there are two types of laws here. ... From our standpoint, it's pretty cut and dry. The federal law says what it says.

We are pleased that we have engaged the American reader in the voting process for a significant book award, We're delighted with the outstanding works of the well-regarded nominees--authors who we were proud to honor here tonight. We look forward to growing the Quills in the years to come.

We're not talking about you scored more points than me and I know that you won and I lost, those are clear results. This is about people's opinions and their subjective takes on things, people that sometimes haven't seen all of the movies they're voting on.

Ultimately it comes down to the market and developers voting with their dollars.

With the paper-based system you can see the ballots being marked, you can see them going into a ballot box, if you have good laws you can go watch them count the ballots, and with electronic voting all of that stuff is hidden inside the machines.

Cuellar has some vulnerabilities with his voting record. But I just don't think Ciro is doing everything to make this as competitive as it could be.

Blacks were systematically targeted to keep them off the voting roles. I think that we're a long way from saying the vote is protected by the federal government.

Early termination penalties prevent consumers from voting with their feet when their cell phone company treats them wrong,

Early voting got off to a slow start last week, but it has steadily picked up. The elections office wants to encourage every registered voter to get out and vote.

Electronic systems are expected to supplant traditional voting techniques, but this will happen only if more resources are dedicated to understanding how these systems work and to training election officials and the public on their use, ... In an election environment with great variability in state electoral laws and in the qualifications of local election officials and poll workers, such an effort will be critical to realizing the full potential of electronic systems.

Belarus created the legal and organizational environment needed for monitoring the vote, which indicates that the election was open.

Be very careful about voting for someone that comes to your town out of nowhere in order to launch a political career at the expense of taxpayers and loyal city residents. Don't believe a deceiver, once a deceiver always a deceiver.

don't go to the latrine without voting in parliament. This is not helpful.

Counsel's advice to me was that they (SDI) do not have a valid claim for voting purposes.

Customers are voting with their dollars and their feet today,

What is now required is that we should, as a country, stay on course to ensure that our economic objectives come to fruition. The close range in the voting is indicative of how serious and close the country had gone towards being expelled and how critical it is for Zimbabwe to urgently implement radical policy measures that will stabilise and grow the economy, especially in areas such as agriculture, mining, tourism, manufacturing as well as in the parastatal and local authority fields,

What really brought this together is a shift in market dynamics we've seen occur over past three, four or five years, ... They had wanted best in class applications. Now the customer and partner community is communicating quite clearly and voting with dollars that what they want are integrated applications.

This year, if I'm voting, I'm voting for Colon.

Benson said in an interview after the vote. ''I think this law finally puts all parental notification on the same footing.

To hold this meeting, days before voting and the town meeting, is a slap in the face to the people of St. Albans. This is not a black and white issue. This is an issue of process and the trust of the people.