Ballot Quotations

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

I really don't sit here and dream what life in the White House will be like. I just can't go beyond the point when the people go to the ballot box with all that power.

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

If power lies more and more in the hands of corporations rather than governments, the most effective way to be political is not to cast one's vote at the ballot box, but to do so at the supermarket or at a shareholders' meeting. When provoked, corporations respond.

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

We've basically been forced into the paper ballot situation, it's not something we want to do.

We're going to need the 12.9. The difference is whether we ask for it one time or are on the ballot in two consecutive years.

There are no greater football critics than the players themselves. To be recognized by your fellow professionals from across the world is a unique honor. While we respect the many other football awards that are handed out I think it is special to see these results, the very first ballot among the world's players.

We've seen in every state with a marriage amendment like this on the ballot that the people get it and understand the threat and it motivates them to come out and vote.

There is a likelihood that will happen. I would say that it's better -- most likely than not that it will be on the May ballot, But it won't be on the ballot where you vote for the house of delegates or whatever, it'll be a separate piece of paper.

The process to get on the ballot is Pennsylvania is a stacked deck against any non-incumbent.

The process that was devised for casting a ballot was simply too cumbersome, too time-consuming, and involved dealing with too many government agencies to make it a usable process.

The population has grown weary of a transitional government that is more concerned with personal enrichment than lifting them out of misery, and they are counting on the ballot box to improve their lot. If the elections go awry, they will turn once again to violence.

What we attempted to do today was put some more common sense and responsible legislation on the table through the legislative process as opposed to the ballot process to avoid having a very damaging constitutional amendment.

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

The only institution that Minnesota Republicans are truly interested in preserving is their slipping grasp on statewide offices. Minnesota Republicans have spent the past month barn-storming the state in an attempt to build support against Democrats in the State Senate who have repeatedly kept this amendment off the ballot in favor of focusing on real issues facing Minnesotan families. Republicans continue their noisy death rattle knowing that polls show that this is their last opportunity to place this amendment on the ballot before they lose the Governorship and State House to Democrats this fall.

When voters read the ballot question, they will ask how the city can call this no new taxes.

She took them out and put them in a reconstituted ballot box and then continued with the election.

Now that the secret ballot is off the table, abuses that come from the peer-to-peer intimidation to sign cards are in play.

Nevada did it this past year -- so that there can be some comparison on the part of the voter: 'This is the way I touched the screen. Did my ballot comply?' And they look at the paper ballot.

I don't believe that in the next round of voting I will be selected for the Hall of Fame, but just being on the ballot makes me proud.

But the result of not allowing her on the ballot is the voters in the 3rd Ward will have no candidate in the general election.

But a broken system in Sacramento stands in the way -- a system rigged to benefit big government labor unions who will do anything to preserve the status quo, ... Four measures on the ballot will change the way Sacramento does business, get our budget under control and make the system more accountable to you.

Given the fact there are multiple individuals vying for a spot on the ballot as an independent, verifying every signature is the surest way to protect the integrity of our elections and confirm the validity of a candidate's name on the ballot.

I expect this to be a significant area of ballot initiative in 2006.

For the record, I'm against it, but the ballot measure will have more credibility with unanimous support.

If that experiment succeeds, then the other parts of the Muslim Brotherhood will be clamoring for elections themselves and feel emboldened to achieve power and leadership through the ballot box.

If the conditions are right to mount a campaign for a quarter-cent transportation sale tax ballot measure in November 2006, we will need the leadership and guidance of thoughtful elected officials such as yourself. We hope you will join us in this effort.

He needs to make an unequivocal statement that he opposes any ballot initiative that takes away the rights of gay and lesbian couples. That is unclear in his statement.

There is a high level of upset among voters who feel their franchise was violated, ... One voter said she got a sample ballot in the mail, filled out all the little circles, then took it to the polls. It wasn't until she saw the discussion later in the news that she realized she had picked the wrong circle.

The people can be sure that their vote will be the same as the ballot that they wrote and put in the boxes,

I thought about getting my All-Star ballot back and putting Jake on it. He's not going to be a guy who gets you 30 points a night, but every night, he's willing to do the dirty stuff. He wants to bang. He's going to have good nights and bad nights, but he's an excellent guy to have on your team.

It is preservative, I think, of all the other rights. Without access to the ballot box, people are not in the position to protect any other rights that are important to them. And so I think it's one of, as you said, the most precious rights we have as Americans.

I think that our momentum right now should be a cautionary tale to the anti-choice community to not overplay their hand and this agenda they've put forth, to be frank, if they really initiate that agenda, I believe they will be overplaying their hand, and we will come back at the ballot box in November and be successful.

I think it's time the shouting match is done. The Australian ballot would end that.

It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them,

I think we're in excellent position to be on the ballot in November. From our experiences with voters over the last five months, we have no doubt it will pass by a large margin.

I will absolutely be on the ballot. I will be on the ballot under any circumstance.

It is a tremendous honor for him and very well deserved. What he did as a player here was simply amazing. His mention on the initial ballot is great for our program and for this university.

Our intention is after April 4 to assess where we're at. In places that weren't able to get it on the ballot in time for April, we will really push and see if they can get this on the ballot in November, regardless of how the election turns out.

Our biggest concern, our No. 1 concern, is will Hoosiers who want to cast a ballot be able to.

Requiring a full-face ballot limits the number of machines that could be used for the disabled.

Planned Parenthood will fight these attacks in courts, in the state houses, at the ballot boxes to ensure that women with their doctors and families continue to be able to make personal health care decisions without government interference.

Our legal team has concluded the ballot was unlawful, ... I assume that this is an issue that will end up in dispute.

Some of the complaints are minor and others may be grave enough to cancel the results of a ballot box.

That $75 million will be spent before the ballot question is even approved. If we're going to go to the ballot for parks, then we should really go to the ballot and fix the system.

My sister is stuffing the ballot box. I know I'd be fired. I'd expect it. But you know, that would be an interesting career move.

I still hope the Legislature will join me, and we can go to the ballot together with a bipartisan plan, ... But one way or another, with the people's help, there will be action this year.

It doesn't happen so frequently that we have rules. It's just common sense. With witnesses from the candidates, they were able to gather up and put (the ballot box) back together so that they could continue and maintain the integrity of the election.

I think I had pretty clearly telegraphed that I was going to be proclaiming (approval of all ballot measures) before I went to Mexico. Anybody could have read those tea leaves.

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

That whole name recognition thing is huge. You need to get around the state as much as you can, giving people your card and shaking hands. I've been on the ballot once before so I'm hoping that's in the back of people's memory.

Most ballot initiatives are required to spell out the issue for voters in the title. Not this one. Rather than asking voters if they want to extend term limits from 8 to 12 years, the title of this measure reads simply 'Term Limits.'

Most Americans still oppose gay marriage, but the levels of opposition are down, and the number of strong opponents is down. This has some implications for the midterm elections if this trend is maintained. There are gay marriage ballot initiatives in numerous states.

We just want to put it on the ballot so people can have a choice.

We continue to explore the possibilities of what can be done to remedy the unfairness of thousands of residents of Palm Beach County who believed they were voting for Al Gore, but had those votes calculated for Pat Buchanan, ... Our legal team has determined that the ballot in Palm Beach County was unlawful.

We don't endorse or oppose candidates, but we can endorse ballot propositions when there is a moral or ethical issue involved.

We do not believe that, in the end, a democratic state can be built when parties or candidates seek power not only through the ballot but through terrorist activities as well.

We've lost all of our workers. They're afraid to come in now, and they don't want to work. I still think we can finish the process, probably with each of the leading candidates looking at each ballot and making a decision we can all live with.

Voting so far is going pretty well considering that we have not had a whole lot on the ballot because there is not much opposition.

Voting should go quickly once people learn how to use the touch screen. It's better in a whole lot of ways than printed ballots. An election can be certified in two days. It should also minimize recounts. The old paper ballot machines would sometimes miscount the ballot and sometimes two ballots would go through instead of one. The touch screen will leave a paper audit trail and recover everything each voter does.

Voting is the language of our democracy, ... And, regrettably, when it mattered most on Election Day, real people lost real opportunities to speak truth to power at the ballot box. This must never occur again if we can do anything to stop it.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

Voters see little on the ballot that connects to their current concerns.

With the Fed action taking some of the prospects for a rally away from the market, we're just sitting here quietly waiting to see what happens in Florida with the absentee ballot count.

The president wouldn't have carried Ohio if the issue (to ban same-sex marriage) hadn't been on the ballot driving out the base, ... not going to evaporate, they're not going to retreat, and they will be a real and influential and sustainable force.

We are doing a huge absentee ballot and voter turnout program. It is one of the largest in the history of California politics.

We are happy with it (the new ballot designation). We have no problem with it. The designation is just fine.

This strikes me as Round 1 in a five-part drama. I'd be very surprised if something does not end up on the ballot in either June or November.

Up and down the beaches, everyone is letting their commissions know that we don't want this and if you don't stop it, you won't be here any more. They went to the ballot and showed people what they thought.

What if, say, somebody doesn't get a ballot in time or it gets lost in the mail?

What I don't appreciate - and what I'm confident the voters will reject - is the attempt by some of the media and others to engage in guilt by association. To associate me with the misdeeds of others is unfair, it's wrong and it will be rejected at the ballot box.

We urge the American administration to be more rational and to avoid extremism in positions and to stop making prejudgments on a government that emerged through the ballot box.

We're trying to make clear that it is, in fact, too late to cast that ballot now.

Those who vote by early ballot are high-efficacy voters. They're very concerned about the issues in their community.

We are speaking to groups throughout the state, reminding them to vote 'NO' to weakening term limits. This ballot initiative has been tainted from the start. The outcome will be meaningless because the electorate has been presented with a deceptive question.

We have set a policy that if they're on the general election ballot and they're a special district, there would not be a charge.

There is no reason whatsoever we should assist a terrorist organization on the ballot to gain victory. This would be like letting a Trojan horse into our city.

The passage of workers' compensation reform in 2004 was a critical step forward for small businesses in California and helped produce and preserve thousands of jobs in our state. The ballot initiatives would eviscerate those reforms, resulting in massive increases in worker's compensation costs, and send our economy into a tailspin. We will rally California's entire business community to preserve the reforms and will wage a vigorous campaign against these job killer initiatives.

When you go to the ballot box in November, if all you are looking at is pure negativity from the Democrats, I don't think it is going to help them.

The only state where it's clearly more difficult for an independent candidate to get on the ballot for governor is Alabama.

The president is not on the ballot so the only way to send a message to the government, to the White House, to Congress about the president's performance is via these congressional elections.

The governor continues his commitment to pursue those reforms. But it's becoming increasingly clear that the way you have to do that is at the ballot box, which would ironically require more fundraising.

The races for the N.C. Supreme Court and N.C. Court of Appeals are the only statewide contests on the ballot this year, so it's key that voters across North Carolina have the facts on these candidates. The State Judicial Voter Guide does just that.

There could not have been a more decisive outcome of this ballot or a more decisive vote in favor a strike.

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.

What we are doing is attempting to open it up to appeal to the broad base of the community. There's a lot of things to delineate, particularly with the short time frame to get it on the ballot for June.

We have to do a lot of asking the public what their feelings are. We need input from the public to get a feel of whether we're going to get their support. There's no use putting something on the ballot if you're not going to get support.

We will sever the hands that attempt to touch any ballot box in order to sabotage the vote.

We insisted on getting on the ballot by petition, because ours is a candidacy of the people and not of big money. We intend to represent the interest of the people and not the multinational corporations and banks.

We think its only fair after all the ballot and financial help Republicans have given Nader -- let alone all the help Nader is taking from Republicans -- that we do our part to bring you all together for next week's big Republican party in New York City. After seeing the passion and hard work that right-wing has put into helping Nader, we thought it only fair that Nader have a chance to speak at the Republican Convention.

We're very happy the Senate chose to keep the full text of the amendment as the ballot question. It's really important that voters know what their vote will mean when they cast it in November. We look forward to having that discussion with the voters.

This office is required to validate the signatures of Texans who sign a petition for an independent candidate, and given the fact there are multiple individuals vying for a spot on the ballot as an independent, verifying every signature is the surest way to protect the integrity of our elections and confirm the validity of a candidate's name on the ballot.

We are very supportive of a paper ballot component.

Brennan Lowery was accidentally left off of the ballot for second-year vice president through no fault of his own. He completed all requirements.

Being voted into the Hall of Fame is the biggest individual honor in baseball. Being voted in on the first ballot is what cements your place in history as one of the greatest to ever play the game. There are likely to be many voters that will think twice about placing Bonds in that elite company, especially when you consider he's never been the most popular individual with the media.

Every dollar spent on these campaign promises, on these two ballot measures, is another dollar that could be spent on a true solution to some of the city's real problems, to the deficit, to the potholes, to park maintenance.

an easy way for the City Council to pass a tax, and there's nothing the public can do about it until it comes time for them to go to the ballot box and vote for aldermen.

Essentially, all of these competing plans that were headed for the June ballot were very popular.

The worst case scenario is for both plans to go on the ballot and confuse voters so nothing gets done again.