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Vote Quotes
On ballots, principle, and voting against.
These vote quotes look skeptically at the mechanics of voting — parties softening their stance just to court votes, and a claim that populations say they care about corruption without acting on it at the ballot box. One line recalls a voter from another century who would have proudly backed Henry Clay, connecting to Election quotes on this site.
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- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are, of course, some who demand a no-deal Brexit and threaten to vote for any party that will deliver it.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
A decision as a backbencher to vote against one's party ought not to be taken lightly.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
All kids should vote - it gives them the opportunity to whinge afterwards because you can't complain if you haven't voted.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I live in south London, it is a very Tory area, so a Labour vote is a wasted vote. My leanings would certainly be not to vote Tory.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Britain signed up to the European Convention and its later protocols, the words 'universal suffrage' were deleted from the 'right to vote' article.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.
- Michael Jordan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are not very many people who go out and vote in primaries. So to get elected in a particular district, you have to appeal to the five people who vote in the primary.
- Computerized
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020