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• There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

  Chris Patten

  Exotic, Way, Election

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• The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

  Pope Gregory I

  Men, Honest, Vote

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• Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

  Ken Livingstone

  Income, Done, Study

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• I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went right back and are voting for homophobes and acting like it doesn’t matter. It does matter and it’s time for the queers in this country to start saying so to their families. I think we’ve all cut them too much slack for far too long.

  Armistead Maupin

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

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• We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

  Sean Duffy

  Impact, People, Principles

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• Boycotting the referendum is a possible option ... because we believe that participating in the voting might be a useless act.

  Saleh al-Mutlaq

  Believe, Useless, Might

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• I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Vote

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

  John Lewis

  Mean, Past, Ohio

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• By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, Unorthodox, Income

  "Life in the Oink Sector". www.wnd.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

  Jacob Lew

  Party, Responsibility, Majority

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• I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting.

  Stacy Keibler

  Wrestling, Dancing, Fans

  "Stacy Keibler May or May Not Be Taking Photoshop Steroids". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. April 23, 2010.

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• People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Country, Views, Should Have

  "Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. May 7, 2012.

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• As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Thinking, Choices, Matter

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• I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, Believe, Fighting

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• A monkey is a much better voter than a socialist. Statistically speaking, if we assume that there are two options to choose from: the "A" and the "B" - the monkey is voting randomly, so its wrong 50% of the time. The socialist, however - is always wrong.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Two, Monkeys, Voters

  Blog, November 7, 2008.

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• Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  White, Black, Protection

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

  Fred Thompson

  News, Politics, Conservative

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• To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Slavery, Politics

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• I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do. Personal honesty is also important to me, and Kerry is obviously not in the running on that point, given that he can't keep track of the facts in his own autobiography.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Honesty, War

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• I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote.... By buying into the rhetoric that there are only two parties worth voting for...you increase their power. And with it, you promote the watered-down freedoms and endless government growth that these two parties consisently vote for.

  Carla Howell

  Party, Government, Two

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• [T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Men, Principles, Vote

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• President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rights, President, Events

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• As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.

  David Dixon

  Support, Effort, Trying

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• On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated into voting in a certain way.

  Ross Kemp

  Country, People, Democracy

  "Ross Kemp on why he'll be voting Labour in the General Election" by Ross Kemp, www.mirror.co.uk. April 9, 2010.

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• There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jail

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