Thank God for paper ballots.

The ballot is the only safety.

Never forgive at the ballot box!

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

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

There is just no evidence of rampant voter fraud when it comes to mail-in ballots.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Mass mailing ballots to voters depends on voter registration rolls that are notoriously error-ridden.

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

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.

Mail-in ballots are a huge source of potential voter fraud. For instance, ballots mailed to wrong addresses or large residential buildings might get intercepted.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.

Internet voting is surely coming. Though online ballots cannot be made secure, though the problems of voter authentication and privacy will remain unsolvable, I suspect we'll go ahead and do it anyway.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

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.

I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

We've got a lot of down-ballot candidates that are also being lifted up by this campaign [for Presidency in 2016]. If we don't take a stand at some point and begin to stand our ground, we are never going to begin to move forward. We've got to do that.

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.

What I never seem to understand about feminist-bashing conservative women is their inability to see how ironic it is that they attend political rallies, share their opinions, and cast their ballots when the America they're nostalgic about wouldn't allow them to do any of those things.

Maryland first allowed early voting during the 2010 primary elections. In November 2012, more than 16 percent of registered voters in Maryland cast their ballots during the early voting period, and some polling places, particularly in our larger jurisdictions, witnessed early voting lines that were hours long.

Voting by mail has a long, venerable tradition in this country, most notably the election of 1864, when 150,000 Union soldiers sent in ballots that helped ensure President Abraham Lincoln's reelection, the preservation of the union and the abolition of slavery. Mailed votes leave a paper trail that renders them less, not more, susceptible to fraud.

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