#ballot

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bullets #peaceful #rightful #successors

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

#ballots #been #complaint #counting #during

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

#first #lose #may #politics #rule

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#know #means #never #oracle #spoken

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

#ballots #collecting #contact #counting #day

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#bread #fight #give #help #her

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

— Abraham Lincoln

#bloody #bullets #give #necessary #only

The ballot is stronger than the bullet. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bullet #stronger #than

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ballots #charters #democracy #direct #illiterate

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

#ballots #been #being #county #human