Bill Nelson Quotes

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

Voter confidence depends on the clean elections.

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

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

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.

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

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

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.

The professionals at the State Board of Elections must assume control of the county board of elections operations in Bladen County, which has shown itself incapable of managing fair elections.

The security and integrity of our election system remains paramount.

I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

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 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 find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

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.

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

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.

Every vote counts and we must count every vote.

Voter fraud is almost non-existent. People don't just show up on election day, trying to impersonate other people.