Kenneth Blackwell Quotes

I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

Elections are rarely perfect.

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

In something as important as an election, a little name-calling sometimes breaks out.

Vote counting is 90 percent art, 10 percent science, and all about human nature

After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.

No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

Election victories increasingly depend on factors other than who votes, or tries to vote, and for whom. In 2000, the presidency was awarded by the Supreme Court, pre-empting the count of thousands of Florida votes.

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly.

In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.

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