Voting Quotations | Page 5

We have a lot of work ahead of us, ... We still need the Voting Rights Act to be reauthorized, protect Social Security for our families, address the health care crisis disproportionately impacting Latino families, and make sure every student has access to a higher education. We need to make sure that Latinos are brought to the table, and not simply asked for their support or ignored on issues facing our country.

We have a couple more who if we were voting today would probably get in, ... and I'll match the strength of our coaches with any league in the country.

Those promises, however, did nothing to stop Thomas and Scalia from repeatedly voting against women's rights, women's reproductive freedom, and civil rights once they were confirmed.

What really brought this together is a shift in market dynamics we've seen occur over past three, four or five years, ... They had wanted best in class applications. Now the customer and partner community is communicating quite clearly and voting with dollars that what they want are integrated applications.

What is now required is that we should, as a country, stay on course to ensure that our economic objectives come to fruition. The close range in the voting is indicative of how serious and close the country had gone towards being expelled and how critical it is for Zimbabwe to urgently implement radical policy measures that will stabilise and grow the economy, especially in areas such as agriculture, mining, tourism, manufacturing as well as in the parastatal and local authority fields,

I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this [anti-terrorism] legislation fundamentally violates that oath.

We want to go ahead and (get) the voting system that will make us compliant. We won't change our primary system. We'll have maybe one device in each polling place, maybe one touch screen or auto mark device. It takes a hard ballot, slides up into this unit and it marks the hard ballot. Earphones can tell the voter what's on the ballot, and there are (oversized) keys for the blind folks. They push a button and the ballot comes back out.

To hold this meeting, days before voting and the town meeting, is a slap in the face to the people of St. Albans. This is not a black and white issue. This is an issue of process and the trust of the people.

This year, if I'm voting, I'm voting for Colon.

What was positioned as a safe protest vote has now become a kind of kamikaze vote,

What happens in New Orleans will affect voting rights all over the United States.

When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

What's happening is that you have a conservationist attitude in the public -- they want to preserve what has been achieved rather than blowing it. The public really wants to keep the status quo and they are most interested in voting for a candidate who preserves that status quo.

We are certainly taking a close look at the district. If you believe you're in a safe seat and you're not voting along party lines, we're going to put a tough candidate up against you.

We felt all along that there was a serious voting rights violation in the way these districts were drawn, particularly involving the black voters in Fort Worth. I hope they'll throw the districts out.

We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day,

We're very pleased. The most important thing is voters know exactly what they're voting on.

We're worried about the voting rights of our people in New Orleans who are not, for the most part, in New Orleans. People should still have a say in what happens in the communities that were ravaged by Katrina.

To be honest, we've had no complaints from people with disabilities about being unable to vote with our current voting system.

This new voting initiative hits the issue of a narrow nominations' process head-on and significantly increases the potential for the widest and most diverse selection of nominees possible.

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

We are voting today not so much on the head of the government but on the course to get us out of this crisis.

We are voting 'no' to create our own property tax relief.

We are very happy that the agreement among the armed factions not to bear arms in the course of voting has held. We are waiting with bated breath to see if it survives throughout the counting period.

We want all handicaps to have accessibility to the voting machines. The county is stuck between a rock and a hard spot.

Both Air Transat and Air Canada went to a variable voting structure and we were the oddball,

Benson said in an interview after the vote. ''I think this law finally puts all parental notification on the same footing.

Be very careful about voting for someone that comes to your town out of nowhere in order to launch a political career at the expense of taxpayers and loyal city residents. Don't believe a deceiver, once a deceiver always a deceiver.

Belarus created the legal and organizational environment needed for monitoring the vote, which indicates that the election was open.

Blacks were systematically targeted to keep them off the voting roles. I think that we're a long way from saying the vote is protected by the federal government.

Everybody wants a clean, well-funded police department ... (and) good public schools. But will everybody go (into the voting booth) and do what's right on the assessor?

As these milestones approach, we can expect there to be increasing violence from the terrorists, ... They can't stand elections. The thought of people voting is anathema to them.

As I said on election night, the result of voting appeared to give the Labor Party the opportunity to begin negotiations to form a new government.

Counsel's advice to me was that they (SDI) do not have a valid claim for voting purposes.

don't go to the latrine without voting in parliament. This is not helpful.

Customers are voting with their dollars and their feet today,

Cuellar has some vulnerabilities with his voting record. But I just don't think Ciro is doing everything to make this as competitive as it could be.

And you know who lets them get away with lying? ... Baseball writers. Hardly any Hall of Fame voters have the (guts) to stand up and say, 'These guys cheated. I'm not voting them into the Hall of Fame.'

Enough of us could simply say we're not voting for any more rules until you promise us a fair debate on campaign finance reform.

Electronic systems are expected to supplant traditional voting techniques, but this will happen only if more resources are dedicated to understanding how these systems work and to training election officials and the public on their use, ... In an election environment with great variability in state electoral laws and in the qualifications of local election officials and poll workers, such an effort will be critical to realizing the full potential of electronic systems.

Early voting got off to a slow start last week, but it has steadily picked up. The elections office wants to encourage every registered voter to get out and vote.

Early termination penalties prevent consumers from voting with their feet when their cell phone company treats them wrong,

Even if many of the undecided end up not voting, this share of 'don't knows' suggests voters are still wavering right up to the election.

Everything we bring to the board complies with the (incentive) policy, ... If it does not, we will not ask for it. Every time he (Privette) votes against an incentive, he's voting against jobs.

Every year there are guys that get overlooked, ... It happens year after year. It will happen until they stop doing the voting process. It is what it is. I just want to play at that level.

There's some frustration and anger on the voting lines. People have ben waiting several hours now and in some cases they haven't even got inside.

There's some frustration and anger on the voting lines.

There's no longer a barrier for counties to purchase electronic voting systems even if they have not had a referendum.

There's nothing more important than fixing our storm drains. That is not the issue -- and, in fact, saving me $100 a year is not the issue. The issue philosophically is that there's a better way of doing this and we feel the entire voting population should have a chance to look at this.

I've been voting Texas No. 1, and I'm not going to change my vote.

It would require a vote from the board to do that, and I'm not sure where the funds would come from at this point. We don't have money in this year's budget that's not already spoken for.

Things are increasingly pointing toward a grand coalition of the CDU/CSU and SPD. This seems like a trend that may firm up before voting day.

think -- and I stress my words -- about the consequences of voting for a party that does not at all correspond to the values of France.

The right to vote is the foundation of our democracy, and an essential protection of that right is the Voting Rights Act. Every voice must be heard and every vote must be counted. State and local governments continue to adopt voting laws, practices and procedures that deny equal access to voting - without the Voting Rights Act, there would be little protection against these efforts to deny some of us our right to vote. The Voting Rights Act is necessary to help ensure that every American citizen is able to exercise the franchise.

The right to vote is a fundamental guarantee for all American citizens. This settlement agreement continues our unprecedented commitment to ensuring voting access to every citizen.

It would take voting out of the all-conference picture. There would be a true conference champion.

The statute is very clear that if a county's results are not to us by 5 p.m. Tuesday we shall ignore that county's vote, and the counties need to be very aware of that, ... Candidates asking for recounts need to be aware of that.

The story is totally irrelevant, the voting was conducted in a secret ballot under the rules of the IOC, absolutely properly, all votes were properly recorded.

The successful election in Iraq was an important step toward establishing an independent democracy in that country. Tremendous credit should go to the U.S. Armed Forces, who made voting possible throughout much of the country, and to the millions of Iraqi citizens, who risked their lives to vote.

The speculation concerning my role during the third voting round in the 2012 (host) city elections are completely without foundation.

The signs are good. All credit first to the people of Iraq to come out and refuse to show any voter fatigue in the third vote this year and then to the government and the IECI and to all the parties who have campaigned and participated by and large peacefully.

The system was tested, the memory card was tested, but the source code was never tested. We believe that the source code is an integral part of that voting system.

The thing I can't believe is they must have rigged the voting, how can you keep up with him, Mr Cricket.

Rules that block persons with disabilities from obtaining personal documentation or from voting in elections can be modified, often at little expense.

Public officials have a responsibility to count and recognize the votes of all Floridians who voted in this presidential election, ... Factors such as administrative inconvenience, expediency or the limitations of vote-reading machines pale in comparison to protecting the voting rights of our citizens.

Protecting voting rights is going to depend on the absentee ballot process. The state has the burden of showing that they have accurate information for locating them. We don't want to have those ballots go out and have them never connect with individuals.

Rather than voting to protect consumers, the Committee made things worse. All consumers should have the right to sleep at night without worrying about identity theft -- this bill takes us in the exact wrong direction.

Our sense is that voter confidence in optical-scanning systems is higher than in direct-record systems. There is a significant portion of the electorate that has serious concerns about the integrity of the voting process.

People's Choice voting is Saturday only. The ribbons will be placed on the exhibits on Sunday. Voting will be for best of show and second and third place.

People should be voting him out of office. He's bad for our air, bad for our children, bad for our country. He's ascending in the Republican Party as a power broker.

PeopleSoft is doing everything it can to prevent its shareholders from voting, ... If PeopleSoft's Board is so convinced that the J.D. Edwards acquisition is a great deal, why won't it let their shareholders vote on it?

People don't go into a voting booth and vote for a Republican or Democratic Congress. They vote for a person and a person they have a relationship with.

People as well as 14-party combine will not participate in any election under these two conspirators who in the past played a leading role in snatching away people?s voting right.

The NAACP will consider filing a lawsuit, or joining existing parties seeking court relief, to protect the voting rights of black voters. The NAACP favors out-of-state satellite voting sites and charges the state to meet the burden of making sure that African American voters receive accurate voter information.

The move simply gives Malone a more liquid and tradable asset if he has normal voting rights. It's perfectly logical for Liberty to want voting rights in a company in which they own shares now that circumstances have changed.

A fraud is being committed beyond the voting booths, obliging people to vote against their will. An election under these conditions is suspicious.

Ads like this are the reason that less than half of the voting population in America bothers to go to the polls.

African-American voting rights were diluted in this election, whether by design or whatever,

A cruise on the big new ships is primarily what people want to buy. People are clearly voting with their wallets. We would be very happy to operate smaller ships if they could generate greater profitability than the big ships, but they don't.

Nowadays, with the electronic voting systems, you don't know what even looks suspicious if you're an elections official. You need people who understand software and software security to understand what the risks are.

During the first four years of justices' tenure, their voting behavior correlates at a rather high level with their appointing president's ideology, but for justices with ten or more years of service, that relationship drops precipitously,

Anybody who's contemplating voting for him is not likely to vote for the current mayor.

And that's what this bill is all about: assuring that each and every voter can have confidence in our elections and that when problems do arise, there can be a determination made about them -- what went wrong and how to correct it so that every vote is counted.

An error on the part of poll workers pressing the wrong button to activate voting machines prevented many from voting in the Democratic primaries.

Apparently there was some confusion at the time of the vote. It was so close that possibly a new vote would be deserved and possibly lead to a different result.

Anyone can talk about cutting waste and taxes. Rep. Coble is of the rare breed who 'walks the walk' by voting to ease the burden of a cumbersome, bloated federal government.

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

As a result, Town Meeting and the Finance Committee have been voting in the blind. My goal is to make sure that doesn't happen again.

As long as there is money to be made, voting corruption will be alive and well.

As I reviewed the number of documents about John Roberts record, it is imperative that there is intensive oversight during the hearings, ... The Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment. We cannot afford to lose ground on the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the affirmative action executive order in the Nixon White House, and the rights to fairness in the criminal justice system.

That's good for us. It implies people are voting with their feet, out of their cars.

This is a way for the voters to speak directly to their representatives. Voting is not just a right; it's a privilege.

This is a new trend in Japanese politics. People are increasingly voting on the policies of individual parties. Now the manifestos of the different parties have become very clear.

This is a truly historic vote. Los Angeles is making a massive statement that we want to educate our children right. It makes up for 35 years of neglect.

This is not a new debate. Debates of voting methods have been going on for hundreds of years.

This is now the most competitive area in the state of Illinois. More people are open to voting Democratic because they don't think it's a wasted vote.

This is probably the greatest amount of change since I've been in the organization. Not allowing a school to play up without a vote by the principals has caused a lot of this change. It's funny; at one time schools would fight to change districts.

This is something that is affecting counties across the state. Until the programming is complete, we'll be back to the old ballot box. But we will be ready for early voting to start Tuesday morning.

This does, sometimes to some people, begin to take on the appearance of a coup. We're talking about a polite, paper-exchanging, voting process in which we rip out the 42nd president of the United States.