Joseph Stalin Quotes
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.
Although this is generally attributed to Stalin, there is no writing of his that has the quotation. So some believe that this quotation is apocryphal.
George W. Bush and the Republicans The President surprised even his supporters by publicly referring to the taint on the George W. Bush election where a 5-4 Supreme Court decision prevented the hand counting of Florida ballots after Bush had already lost the popular vote and was in danger of losing the electoral vote as well.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and the ruler of the Soviet Union from 1927 until 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he ultimately consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's de facto dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalized these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism.