Quotes About Ballots

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

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.

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

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

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

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.

If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.

Pretending that voter fraud does not exist puts the integrity of our voting process at risk.

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.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

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.

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.

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

There must have been a number of ballots marked 'no,'" he said. "But if there were, they were simply discarded. Only the 'yes' ballots counted in the official vote." His wry young face wrinkled with distress.

I'm from Florida and we have huge primary contests there.

With a presidential election in the offing, Grant was drawn into a controversy over whether soldiers in the field should be allowed to cast ballots.

Policy proposals to ensure the integrity of ballots are routinely presented by Democrats as not just racist but as having no function other than racism.

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

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.

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.