Big cities Quote by Susan Orlean

The drama of any election night often obscures the banal reality behind voting. Even when winners and losers are clear, it takes time to…

— Jamelle Bouie

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

— Jonathan Raban

In the United States, we've put our elections on Tuesday. That's dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense.

— Shaun King

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose…

— Bob Schaffer

In fact, there is no law that says election results must come the same day as the election. Historically, they used to take days.

— Heather Cox Richardson

Elections matter and voting counts.

— Barack Obama

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.

— Judy Woodruff

Elections are about the voters who vote in them.

— Steve Schmidt

An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while…

— Adam Cohen

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

— Jeff Melvoin

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

— Heather Wilson

Oftentimes we go out and vote during the presidential races, but then stay home during the local elections.

— Ashley Biden