Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Quotes

Elections are rarely perfect.

In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly.

People don't wake up to go to vote and then have their ballot not counted.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

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.

I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Vote counting is 90 percent art, 10 percent science, and all about human nature

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

The security and integrity of our election system remains paramount.

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.

The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

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.

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

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

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

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