Zalmay Khalilzad Quotes

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

Can you imagine on-line voting. Even when your body has to show up, they manage to cheat somehow.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.

We have confidence in the overall integrity of our electoral system. It is diverse, subject to local control, and has many checks and balances built in.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

Elections are rarely perfect.

Our only hope is to control the vote.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

Democrats tend to always encourage people to vote – whether they are alive or dead.

Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.

I am very confident that in 2008, people's votes will count. I don't think they did in 2004. I think in 2008, they will.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud during the 2016 elections or any relatively recent election.

The security and integrity of our election system remains paramount.

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.

As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

Voter confidence depends on the clean elections.

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.