Quotes About Voting

Elections have consequences. – Gabriel Allon

majoritarianism.

Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

What a happy conception, then, was it for Congress to apply this simple rule, that the will of the majority shall govern...

In our view, voting was an effect rather than a cause of the megapolitical conditions that brought forth the modern nation-state.

Both in concept and infrastructure American democracy was majestic, but when one came down to the actual, individual men who worked behind those imposing marble facades, the people were as likely as not to elect seedy, shortsighted, self-serving jingoes who embarrassed their offices.

Who are to be the electors of the federal representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor; not the learned, more than the ignorant; not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscurity and unpropitious fortune. The electors are to be the great body of the people of the United States. They are to be the same who exercise the right in every State of electing the corresponding branch of the legislature of the State.

A Nation State or Cyber-Mercenary won't hack e-voting machines one by one. This takes too long and will have minimal impact. Instead, they'll take an easier approach like spear phishing the manufacturer with malware and poison the voting machine update pre-election and allow the manufacturer to update each individual machine with a self-deleting payload that will target the tabulation process.

E-Voting machines are nothing more than dilapidated, barebones PCs with zero endpoint security.

The biggest center of attention needs to be the Secretaries of State. They're the ones that manage the elections. At the end of the day, they're the ones that need to be held accountable.

The Know Nothings fought to delay citizenship for the new immigrants and bar them from voting.

Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor "of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry.

You mean they actually vote for the lizards?' 'Oh yes,' said Ford with a shrug, 'of course.' 'But,' said Arthur, going for the big one again, 'why?' 'Because if they didn't vote for a lizard,' said Ford, 'the wrong lizard might get in.

You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?

Instead of feeling sexy and tingly, it felt useless, like recycling plastics or registering to vote.

Remember to vote early -- and often.

Former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank once said, "I only voted once for someone who believes in 100 percent of what I believe. And that's when I voted for myself—the first time.

Take it from me–elections matter.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Democracy should not work on the basis of personalities.

I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase.

My position is if you double vote, we will find you and it will be a heavy hit to the wallet.