Joseph Stalin Quotes

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.

The most important thing is who counts the votes.

People have been voting to choose their leader but their votes were never allowed to COUNT, I will not allow the choice of the people to be subverted by any party, not even APC

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

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.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted.

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

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.

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.

Elections are rarely perfect.

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

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

We must care more about bloodless revolutions called elections than about who wins the elections.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

There were two Republican members of the Supreme Court—and God will reward them—who actually took the position that all votes should have been counted

The ballots don’t make the results—the counters make the results.

Elections are always about turnout.