Quotes About Elections

this period, they alone could elect the political officials of the Roman state; no matter how blue-blooded you were, you could only hold office as, say, consul if the Roman people elected you. And they alone, unlike the senate, could make law.

Public disinterest in punishing illegal vote buying means that local prosecutors rarely pursue charges against their fellow elected colleagues....Yet the inclination no matter how small, to blame the most vulnerable citizens for fraud is misdirected.....Any outrage over fraud should be reserved for the candidates who buy their votes, neglect the issues that concern the poor, and studiously refuse to implement policies that could help them.

they did not yet have control of the Senate. But elections for one-third of the Senate's members were coming up in early 1879. And despite the Senate's reputation as a bastion of conservative power, the republicans intended to win.

Curing America's racial pathology couldn't be done with good intentions or presidential elections.

We still have real jury trials, honest judges, and free elections, all the superficial characteristics of a functional, free democracy. But underneath that surface is a florid and malevolent bureaucracy that mostly (not absolutely, but mostly) keeps the rich and the poor separate through thousands of tiny, scarcely visible inequities.

Anyone who takes a close-enough look at how we run elections in this country will conclude that the process is designed to be regressive. It distracts us with trivialities and drives us apart during two years of furious arguments. It's a divide-and-conquer mechanism that keeps us from communicating with one another, and prevents us from examining the broader, systematic problems we all face together.

Win or lose, Trump's campaign threatens to unleash the Great American Stupid S

Banks like Goldman remain largely shielded from the impact of public opinion because while the public's only link to power is through the clumsy and highly imperfect avenue of elections, a bank of this size has a whole network of intimate connections with direct access to policy. In

Given that most actual voters were sunk in debt, working multiple jobs, uninsured, saddled with ruined credit scores, and often battling alcohol and opiate addiction and other problems, it was a horrific aristocratic insult to tell people each election cycle that what really mattered to them was what candidate looked most convincing carrying a rifle on a duck hunt.

The amazing closeness of American elections has never made sense. In a country in which 10 percent of the population owns 90 percent of the wealth, you'd expect the very rich to be a permanent electoral minority. That it doesn't work out that way is odd. But this is not the kind of observation pundits tend to make.

In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters themselves are the only ones who never saw it. Elections

As for the rest of them, God help us. Trump's continued success puts the onus on the field to try to out-crazy the frontrunner.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Because of the coronavirus, states had liberalized mail-in and early voting, and millions of Americans had voted before Trump's last-minute comeback. The exit polls suggested that Trump won late deciders. But late deciders matter less when most ballots are cast early.

The Tea Party was noteworthy for its hostility to both the Democratic and the Republican parties. When it turned to electoral politics, the Tea Party backed antiestablishment candidates, with a mixed record in general elections. That was because the Tea Party brought out both optimistic, forward-looking, mainstream supply-siders and pessimistic, anti-institutional, conspiracy-minded extremists.

Republicans can continue to win elections nationally for a few more years by relying on a base of older, less educated white voters, but that strategy will prove less and less successful as the number of people of color continues to grow. By 2044, whites are expected to be a minority in America—very bad news for a party that has alienated everyone who isn't white.

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

The Canada we know and love will not survive another four years of Stephen Harper and his Conservative government.

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

As a former GOP establishment member, I realized that the RNC fit the definition of Einstein's theory of crazy. During the last two election cycles, The Party kept doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result and as a result, Republicans kept losing.

If you want to get the best people to run for office, weve got to make the rules easier, and simpler, and more understandable to get on the ballot.

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

American prisons have been outsourced. Much of education is outsourced. Much of the law is outsourced. Most of health is outsourced. Why not outsource Government?! Well, that's our little joke, of course – it has already been outsourced. Corporations, the super rich, Wall Street and lobbyists run the Government. Elections are just a PR exercise to fool the sheeple that they have some sort of say in who governs them. They don't.

La financiación de las campañas electorales y las hordas de representantes de los lobbies dan a las grandes corporaciones y a las personas ricas poder suficiente para deformar las reglas a su favor.