Polling Stations Quotes

The people are always worsted in an election.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

Outcome of these elections is not in doubt due to simple fact that there is only one candidate for each position…. You may be wondering why party propaganda machine attaches such importance to electoral campaign and surrounds it with such unparalleled pomp and circumstance.

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.

Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.

I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.

In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.

I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.

The 2009 elections were the first my party faced. Still MNS candidates lost by lesser margins. Each of my candidate got more than one lakh votes.

We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.

The main question that is decided by an election in our country is, which political party shall have the privilege of dispensing the offices of Government?

Frequent elections not only entail more burden on human resources, imposition of model code also impedes the development process.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever.

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

Parties do often nominate losers.

I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.

It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them.