#electoral

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#confirmed #control #democratic #effort #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

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

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

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

— Thomas E. Mann

#direct #elected #electoral #electoral college #members

Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#avoiding #campaigns #changes #conducted #difficult

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#desperate #electoral #grown #happen #happening

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance. ↗

— Perry Christie

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