After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to pay for the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Americans have demanded to know where the money fueling our elections is coming from.
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
My long-held fear is that Mr. Obama is hiding something about his education. During the endless 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama would not release his college grades. Given that President George W. Bush and Sens. Al Gore and John Kerry all had proved mediocre grades were no impediment to a presidential bid, Mr. Obama likely had other concerns.
Even if AAP wins municipal elections we will continue to demand probe into EVM tampering because it threatens the base of democracy.
Shockingly, the Government Accountability Institute has reported that the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns received questionable contributions of more than $500 million as a result of poor disclosure requirements.
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.
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.
You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.
If people are going to donate huge sums of money to influence elections, we have the right to know who is donating, and this will also play a key role in helping to fight off foreign influence in our elections.
Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.
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.
While normal people have to disclose donations directly to a candidate, there is no such transparency on people donating to certain types of nonprofit organizations that can play a major role in our elections.
Trump often says he needs to keep his tax returns private until the IRS finishes auditing him. But the IRS itself has said this isn't necessary. And recently, Trump changed his tune, saying he'll release his returns as soon as Hillary Clinton releases the 33,000 emails she deleted from her email server.
More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.
I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.
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.
The best way to shine a light on all of this 'dark money' flooding into our elections would be for Congress to pass legislation requiring all organizations to disclose their political spending in a timely manner.
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for.
Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
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.
Elections should be prepared as well as possible and raise as little doubt as possible
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.
