Voting Issues Quotes

People should not be voting based on caste, religion, money, or liquor but real issues that affect their lives.

The total bogus voters in Dera Bassi might be several thousand.

Flooding the mails with ballots is an invitation for voter fraud and chaos on Election Day. There is a danger of votes being lost, tampered with and, frankly, not counted by overwhelmed election officials.

In America, we do cheat. We have people who cheat in elections.

[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

About one quarter of all the voting machines in the United States stupidly do not have any paper trail.

An average person like me does not know about stuff like chasing absentee ballots.

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.

During elections, every party has a different strategy and issues.

Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.

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.

This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

There is no question we are having a difficult time rounding up the votes.

Clearly, dirty election rolls can mean dirty elections.

History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

You aren't just voting for the president. So many issues that affect your everyday life are decided locally on that ballot as well. So go get that god damn sticker. Your country needs you.

When I was a campaign worker, you would meet people who would want to vote but didn't have any money for postage. It happens more often than people think.

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

Democracy exists in Mexico 354 days of the year. It is only missing on Election Day.

You know, we had the elections earlier in the week, and a dead woman, in Pennsylvania, somehow was on the ballot and she was elected to city council. A dead woman actually elected! And I'm thinking, well, I guess there is still hope for Al Gore.

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to count. Today in Florida they said, 'What? You count the ballots?'