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• South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Australia, Giving, Community

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• If it went on the ballot in Colorado,
  I would vote to lower the drinking age.

  Pete Coors

  Drinking, Age, Colorado

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2004.

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

  Thomas E. Mann

  Fashion, Variables, Uniforms

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• Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots

  James Stockdale

  Kings, President, Telephones

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• If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Men, Years, September

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• More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

  Patricia Ireland

  Opportunity, Miami, Looks

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• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  Hamid Karzai

  Country, Differences, People

  "Afganistan's Hamid Karzai". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2003.

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• I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, California, Issues

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2011.

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• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  Malcolm X

  Expression, Use, Cotton

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• It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

  Law, Opposites, Action

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• What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Rose, Bread, Workers

  "Strikes were a part of Women's Day before. With Trump, they will be again" by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2017.

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• 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

  Malcolm X

  Two, America, Twenties

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Presidential, Waiting

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

  Malcolm X

  Gratitude, Men, Giving

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

  Paul Ryan

  Sports, Blood, Names

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

  Mark Thomas

  Fighting, Years, People

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• Never forgive at the ballot box!

  Wendell Phillips

  Forgiving, Boxes, Never Forgive

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• Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

  Booker T. Washington

  Character, Men, Skills

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• The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the
  worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Strong, Morning

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.718, Modern Library

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• But down in Florida in the early voting, there were computer glitches, confusing ballots, long lines and chaos. And when President Bush heard about this, he said, 'Mission accomplished!'

  David Letterman

  Florida, Long, Voting

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• Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

  Michael Douglas

  Political, Arms, Bullets

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• More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.

  Thomas Sowell

  Loss, Choices, Voting

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• Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, Law, Growth

  John William Gibson, William Henry Crogman, Booker T. Washington, Fannie Barrier Williams (1902). “Progress of a race: or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust”

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• A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Citizens, Failing, Economics

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• If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one womanmy dear wifeas I begin this very difficult job.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Jobs, Men, Office

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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