Jill Stein Quotes

US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.

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.

Whether or not your candidate wins, the crucial importance is the integrity of our voting system. You have to engage in the process in order to change it.

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.

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

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

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

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

Elections should be prepared as well as possible and raise as little doubt as possible

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

Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the choice would be less likely to be diverted from him, by the intrigues of the ambitious, or the bribes of the rich.

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

Voting in this country has essentially been relegated to a very fledging group of election officials, who receive no training and operate on shoestring budgets on one hand, and political consultants whose job is to get their candidates elected on the other. And when you have that kind of scenario, it's really hard to describe yourself as a vibrant democracy. It's an embarrassment.

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.

The second thing we have to do is to make sure that all of us think about how we approach our elections and our democracy not only to secure them from vote tampering, but also to make sure that we understand when propaganda is being churned through the system.

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

About one quarter of all the voting machines in the United States stupidly do not have any paper trail.

I do believe we have voter fraud in America.

To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

Thank God for paper ballots.

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there's a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there's some challenge. If there isn't rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote.

Fighting gerrymandering is one thing. The other thing is insuring we have the right candidates for the people and not the right candidates for the Party.