Mercedes Schlapp Quotes

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 learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

Popular elections are uncertain.

If the Election be made by the People in large Districts, there will be no danger of Demagogues.

One person, one vote sounds so reasonable and - dare I say it - democratic. But the voting process in America is anything but fair and balanced.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.

Elections are rarely perfect.

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

I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

Compared to this [the transition] the election was easy.

There's only one problem with this year's upcoming Presidential election—one of the candidates has to win.

A Doubtful Election

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.

Voter suppression in Florida in 2000 helped put Republican George W Bush into office despite losing the popular vote and the targeting of state legislative elections in 2010 enabled Republicans to gerrymander states out of Democrat reach.

In the history of U.S. elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred in the country's attempt to elect a president that year.

The closely divided presidential election of 2000 - in which George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by the slimmest of margins in Florida - forever implanted the divide between red states and blue states in our political consciousness.

We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.

After Trump, how can we credibly say that our process for choosing a national leader yields the best possible result, or even someone capable of uniting the country, let alone running it?

In the United States, we've put our elections on Tuesday. That's dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense.

A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.

Voter confidence depends on the clean elections.