Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

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

As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.

I don't think New Mexicans know how many people vote illegally.

We have confidence in the overall integrity of our electoral system. It is diverse, subject to local control, and has many checks and balances built in.

I am very confident that in 2008, people's votes will count. I don't think they did in 2004. I think in 2008, they will.

Oregonians have many good reasons to be proud of our election system.

My hope is that Kansas will be to stopping election fraud what Arizona is to stopping illegal immigration.

Voter confidence depends on the clean elections.

Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

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.

And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.

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

They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

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.

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

Have election day on a weekend so that people can vote.