My father was raised a union Democrat. He cast his first ballot for a Republican in 1980 for Ronald Reagan.
Elections have been free and fair with full participation of the people, reinforcing that the ballot is mightier than the bullet.
Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.
Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.
I will always stand up to protect fair access to the ballot box.
A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.
Spoiling my ballot paper is the only way I can see of stripping the system of legitimacy, shaking it up, and reforming it so that it favours citizens.
Strong communities start at the ballot box - where every eligible Ohioan has the opportunity to make their voice heard.
If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.
The ballot box and the voters and how they pay attention and the decisions they make are really what should define term limits.
If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries.
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot.
Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.
Efforts to steal an election in 2000 or overturn one from 2016 should be met not with passive compliance but a righteous defense of the ballot box.
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.
It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.
We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.
Revis is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. It's just an honor going against him.
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.
The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
We can have all the walkouts we want, but if we don't walk to that ballot box and make our voices heard, these politicians aren't going to listen.
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.
If you take away people's identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don't be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.
When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.
Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump.
When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.
The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they can't pass certain responsibilities on to civil society.
It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.
It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.
I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.
Generally, Senate races are not a referendum on the president or on any one issue but a choice between the two candidates on the ballot.
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.
Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.
Models: I'm not voting for you for any stupid magazine list! If you were really that Hot you wouldn't have to beg the world to stuff the ballot.
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.
Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.
The mood, it is fair to say, was reasonably tense. As a result of the conclusion of the ballot, most members are happy that this matter has now been determined.
What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.
Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.
At every future election, there should be a slot, at the top of each ballot paper, in which we can put a cross against 'None of the below.'
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot.
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