#electoral

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#becoming #complexity #constructed #day-to-day #democracy

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#electoral #electoral process #fundamental #fundamental right #general

I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#certified #college #december #electoral #electoral college

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#absolutely #absolutely nothing #candidate #checked #college

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#become #care #chances #democrats #electoral

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#electoral #popular #proportion #require #votes

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#any #clear #did #electoral #ever

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

#because #disadvantage #electoral #everyone #freezes

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#economic #electoral #means #sense #volatility

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#change #critical #democratic #electoral #good