Kinky Friedman Quotes

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.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

Elections are rarely perfect.

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

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

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

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.

Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.

Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there to host a peaceful election, and we then found out a bunch of stuff was hacked. We probably would push to have another election to make sure that would be fair.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

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

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.

The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

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

When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.

When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

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.

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.

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.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.