Election System Quotes

I think we need to change the system of elections in order to give less power to some sectors in Israeli society.

Here in Brazil, the president and the vice president are elected together.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.

Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system.

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

The essential democracy of our Nation and the safety of our people depend not upon the absence of power, but upon lodging it with those whom the people can change or continue at stated intervals through an honest and free system of elections

We have to carefully consider whether our election system is critical infrastructure, like the financial system or the power grid. There is a vital national interest in our election process.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why they keep this fear voting system in place.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.

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

So far we have 4 open elections with no minority Malay President. So 2017 must remain an open election and if no minority Malay President wins in 2017, than a reserved election will be triggered in 2023.

We’re the only country in the world where somebody can come in second and still be President because of the Electoral College.

The security and integrity of our election system remains paramount.

The money is given in these state judges elections by the very people who will appear before these judges. Now that can’t be a good system.

The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties to choose from since the beginning.

In our system today, many people don’t have to win general elections; they just have to win primaries.

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.

Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.