Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes

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

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.

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.

Can you imagine on-line voting. Even when your body has to show up, they manage to cheat somehow.

How shall those who practice election frauds recover that respect for the sanctity of the ballot which is the first condition and obligation of good citizenship? The man who has come to regard the ballot box as a juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

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.

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

Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.

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.

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.

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

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

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

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

The professionals at the State Board of Elections must assume control of the county board of elections operations in Bladen County, which has shown itself incapable of managing fair elections.

America's elections are the foundation of our democracy - so protecting them is a priority for the FBI and our partners.

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

Even if AAP wins municipal elections we will continue to demand probe into EVM tampering because it threatens the base of democracy.

Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there to host a peaceful election, and we then found out a bunch of stuff was hacked. We probably would push to have another election to make sure that would be fair.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

I think what my father is saying is I want a fair election. I want a fair election.

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

Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

Part of the reason voter suppression works is we've created this culture that says you don't challenge the outcome of elections unless the act is so egregious as to be absolutely clear on its face.