Ballots Quotations

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

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.

Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

We're not actually sure how many ballots were affected.

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.

Ultimately, we may want to see all the ballots because we want to count them,

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

We've said all along that federal law requires provisional ballots and the statute was crystal clear on that. This certainly calls into question whether the DOJ is gong to pre-approve the secretary of state's voter manual.

Luckily we have a supply of paper ballots we use for absentee voting. We were able to use the ballots as backup.

Since there is only one race going on, counting will begin immediately, ... Generators and lanterns will provide light for the staff counting the ballots tonight.

Millions of American citizens who have been convicted of crimes in the past are denied the ability to cast ballots in elections.

More black voters than white voters had their ballots discarded, no matter what kind of voting system was used. Punch card ballots cheat voters, and they are much more likely to cheat African-American voters.

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.

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.

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.

Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed.

If the deal gets done by (Tuesday), the printer still has the ability to deliver the ballots to voters by mid-May.

Whatever happens, we will have to have a manual count of the ballots and that could last up to two weeks.

Never forgive at the ballot box!

I think it is reasonable to assume we could have a definitive recertification of all the ballots by midday tomorrow,

I think a lot of people will get the ballots and not understand how to vote.

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.

I think they ought to send up all the ballots up in a unified way, ensuring the integrity of the evidence.

I think the turnout is going to be a surprise. You take a look at what has happened in early vote as well as absentee ballots that have been sent in; they seem to be above what election officials had anticipated.

Our government came as a natural result from the ballots collected from election posts in Palestinian areas. It was a fair and democratic process that the entire world took notice of. The US administration should respect the free will of the Palestinian people.

Over 30 States, including Oklahoma, are now required by Congress to print bilingual or multilingual ballots in at least some parts of those States.

Our position is that Ms. Wade has not met her burden to show that there were improper ballots that were counted here.

Stampeding everyone into all-mail ballots is a wrong decision and removes freedom of choice.

That can't be the goal of any of the major parties. The people would likely punish them at the ballots for not being able to overcome their inner-party conflicts and finally form a government. They're sick of it.

It all depends on the early-voting turnout and how many ballots the (election) judges will have to process after the polls close. We're really not sure of its impact. But I can't anticipate delays lasting hours.

The alleged improper return of absentee ballots by third parties does not, in and of itself, constitute a basis for invalidating all of the absentee ballots cast in Bay County,

While the court does not in any sense condone the irregularities noted by the trail court in the way the applications for absentee ballots were handled. However, these irregularities do not require the voiding of all absentee ballots.

We realize that a percentage of Louisiana voters will vote by absentee ballots. We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now. It is important that displaced residents understand that we will to do our part to make sure that absentee ballots are delivered and counted.

We realize that a large percentage of Louisiana voters are exercising their constitutional right to vote via absentee ballots. Those ballots are being sent through the mail, and the United States Postal Service stands ready to deliver these ballots to elections officials.

We have to keep counting the absentee ballots, because under the law those ballots that we receive a week after the election we have to count as well. So if it is close, we are not going to rush to judgment. We are going to do the responsible thing and make sure we give all of the candidates and the voters of the city of New York real numbers, not numbers that are unofficial.

Voting should go quickly once people learn how to use the touch screen. It's better in a whole lot of ways than printed ballots. An election can be certified in two days. It should also minimize recounts. The old paper ballot machines would sometimes miscount the ballot and sometimes two ballots would go through instead of one. The touch screen will leave a paper audit trail and recover everything each voter does.

Voters should know we are working with officials to provide ballots and equipment that will work well on Election Day.

Today, the U.S. Congress declares America's independence from hanging chads, butterfly ballots and a broken outdated election system that nearly provoked a constitutional crisis two years ago.

The problem is Florida voters keep saying eight years, but the legislature is hearing 12 and 24 years. They're just not hearing the voters who cast their ballots by a solid 77% margin in favor of eight-year term limits, so we decided to help their hearing.

We are determined to ensure that all overseas voters, including our armed forces overseas, can vote and have their ballots counted, as guaranteed by federal law.

When you're casting your ballots for Defensive Player of the Year or All-Defensive Team, there's no doubt. I think people forget about what he's done. He's second in the league in blocks and he only plays 16 or 18 minutes per game. He's really a factor for us. I thought he was the difference tonight.

We are looking closely at specimens of the ballots found at the dump, to check whether these are real ballots.

There are ballots that the machine cannot read but from which voter intent can be discerned by manual review.

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.

We've never had so many ballots with so many problems,

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.

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

We're not making any decision about anything until the ballots are counted. We can't talk about the next race until we are finished with this one.

We're receiving applications, but we're not sending out ballots because we don't have them yet.

We had about 15 people come and once we started showing them how to use it, they were very, very positive about it. It was fun for them and they actually enjoyed casting ballots on it. No one had anything negative to say after they had tried it and I think that surprised them.

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,

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

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.

Every spring in March, we have a district technology showcase, and the digital art is displayed there. But we've never had people casting ballots to select pieces that would go on to the conference.

At this point, if we don't get additional personnel restored, we will be back to some paper ballots throughout the county, and the counting of paper ballots will take months.

Everything went really well. We had no problems with the machines. There were a few things I would like to do differently as far as organization goes when the ballots are brought in, but others said they thought it went smoothly.

These were sold as safe systems. They passed tests as safe systems. But?there is a way to rig an election. It's not a bunch of guys stuffing ballots in a precinct. It's possibly one person acting in secret changing thousands of votes in a second.

Protecting voting rights is going to depend on the absentee ballot process. The state has the burden of showing that they have accurate information for locating them. We don't want to have those ballots go out and have them never connect with individuals.

Special election ballots do not list the party affiliations of candidates, ... Should no candidate in a race receive a majority of votes on Aug. 30, a runoff election will be held on Sept. 13.

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

Ballots and Burqas: Women and Community Change in Afghan-istan.

You can't have two ballots that are identical ... and have (them) counted in one way in one county and another way in another county,

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,

It's not normal to have these ballots there.

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,

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.

Any ballots received after 5:00 pm will not be counted or taken into account for the Oscars.

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

If there's still a need for a runoff after the ballots are counted, we will consider our legal options.

If there's any question to the propriety of accounting, we always have the ballots so they can be examined. That's something that doesn't exist with the touch-screen voting.

If you add Al Gore and Ralph Nader's vote totals, a clear majority of people voted for policies and a vision to protect America's environment ... As further proof that Americans used their ballots to support strong environmental safeguards, pro-environmental candidates won in approximately 75 percent of the Sierra Club's top-priority Senate and House campaigns.

In some polling stations, blank ballots totaled a quarter of the votes, and in some others, one third of the votes.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too,

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets

The ballot is the only safety.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.