Ballots Quote by Michael Bierut

“Another grave fault in our election system is that the campaigns are unduly strung out. [Election Administration in the United States, 1934, page 72]”

— Joseph P. Harris

“Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

— Zephyr Teachout

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for…

— Bob Schaffer

Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is…

— Jean Chretien

In this way, there is a strange alchemy to modern campaigning: a candidate must highlight the urgency of the choice facing voters and suggest…

— Alex Wagner

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to…

— Maria Rubio

Efforts to steal an election in 2000 or overturn one from 2016 should be met not with passive compliance but a righteous defense of…

— Mollie Hemingway

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

— Vladimir Franz

Regardless of whether there was ballot manipulation or not, you still have 50 million people who voted for George W. Bush in the 2000…

— Josh Brolin

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the…

— James Russell Lowell