Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Quotes

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

In a democracy, voting is a huge and most important right of a common man.

I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Give all of the governed a voice in their government; that and that alone is self government.

Well, first of all, I think that Russia has to have free democratic elections, that means everyone who wants to take part in it should be admitted.

The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.