#vote

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#anyone #ballot #ballot box #ballots #box

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge. ↗

— Kevin Shelley

#charge #i #insisting #measures #need

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it. ↗

— Clare Short

#bully #countries #going #pressure #vote

I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation. ↗

— Norodom Sihamoni

#devote #i #nation #people #service

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#believe #consider #deeply #even #i

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something. ↗

— Bob Weir

#damn #democracy #exercise #get #had

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

#al gore #bill #bill clinton #clinton #congress

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#out #people #poor #realized #sections

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience. ↗

— Quin Hillyer

#experience #facts #history #logic #political-candidates

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. ↗

— William H. Seward

#constitution #devotes #domain #higher #law