The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.
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.
Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.
In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.
Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.
The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections.
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.
For a long time, there has been lingering doubt among many Americans about integrity and fairness of elections. And it's not a new issue at all. If you look at polling data, it goes back decades.
There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this kind of thing can happen again here. And so in addition to the report assessing what exactly happened, what we have also done is to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security and our intelligence teams are working with the various folks who run our elections.
I think the people should demand accountability on the voting. I think there's no point in voting if you're not gonna demand fairness and be able to verify each vote. And other countries can do this fairly easily. So I don't think you really want democracy if you're not willing to take that first step.
To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
It's too bad American electoral races aren't as transparent as NASCAR races.
Our plan is absolutely clear. It's organization of new elections, fair and transparent.
On the one hand, to suggest that white poll watchers are going to black communities threatening and provocative. On the other hand is to suggest that if that same line of vote is he also resists making a commitment to honor the winner of the campaign, that there is another agenda.
I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.
Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.
We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.
I'm not questioning that Donald Trump won the election. But there's nothing more sacred than our democratic process in the United States. And we have got to make sure that - put aside partisan politics and make sure that we're getting to the bottom of all of this.
We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.
There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.
Electoral reforms are necessary if India has to be rid of black money.
