#electoral

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council. ↗

— John Hume

#city #city council #council #divided #eight

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#criminal #criminal justice #economic #economic justice #electoral

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#electoral #europe #laws #more #states

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#electoral #human #intentions #more #nothing

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#anybody #between #contemplate #could #difference

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional

I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#electoral process #i #i think #important #keeps

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush. ↗

— George Galloway

#clear #college #delivering #electoral #electoral college

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#electoral #electoral process #faith #must #our

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College. ↗