Ballot Counting Quotes

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

The people are always worsted in an election.

I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

Popular elections are uncertain.

It was a good election, a good campaign, and a good friend won.

In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.

Compared to this [the transition] the election was easy.

The convention will be dead-locked, and after the other candidates have gone their limit, some twelve or fifteen men, worn-out and bleary-eyed for lack of sleep, will sit down about two in the morning around a table in a smoke-filled room in some hotel and decide the nomination. When that time comes [Warren Gamaliel] Harding will be selected.

Don't call the question unless you've got the votes.

There were two Republican members of the Supreme Court—and God will reward them—who actually took the position that all votes should have been counted

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

What makes America's election system unique is the fact that even when elections are close, we find a resolution, which leads to the peaceful transition of power that remains one of the most important tenets of our democracy.

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

Every election is hectic.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

It only takes one vote to win the Vice Presidential nomination.

It's been an unusual election [2016].

I think we should have the majority of the party's voters decide who they want as their nominee.

We have voted. The people have spoken. It’s just going to take a little while to figure out what we said.

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.

Hillary [Clinton] was selected by only 8 percent of the population. [Donald] Trump, by only 7 percent

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.

Election victories increasingly depend on factors other than who votes, or tries to vote, and for whom. In 2000, the presidency was awarded by the Supreme Court, pre-empting the count of thousands of Florida votes.