A Quote by Friedrich Schiller

Votes should be weighed not counted.

Friedrich Schiller

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Counted Should Votes Weighed

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Friedrich Schiller
German - Dramatist
November 10, 1759 - May 9, 1805

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

Vincent Bugliosi

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

Vincent Bugliosi

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

Muhammad Iqbal

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

Mario Diaz-Balart

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

Elizabeth Gilbert

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Will Rogers

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there's a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there's some challenge. If there isn't rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote.

Timothy D. Snyder

US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.

Roseanne Barr

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Thomas Reed

If we really mean that people's votes are to be counted, the timelines ought to exist around what it takes to count every vote.

Andrew Gillum

Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.

P. J. O'Rourke

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

George Galloway

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

Thomas E. Mann

On Earth, I weighed 150 pounds; my suit and backpack weighed another 150. 300 pounds. Up there, I weighed only 50. So I could prance around on my toes. It was quite easy to do.

Alan Bean

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

Marcy Kaptur

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