Unfair Elections Quotes

In the majority of African countries, the electoral bodies have been the personal choice of the imperial president….these bodies are not strong enough to withstand executive pressure to manipulate the results.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box.

Political leaders in Belarus are routinely repressed, and their voices are muffled: Tsikhanouskaya was running for president because her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, was arrested before he could start his own presidential campaign.

Money has come to play a very bad role in the ANC; people's votes are bought, and patronage has become the order of the day. All those deviant tendencies need to be curbed.

When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Our tribunals — unlike those in the United States — have been traditionally subordinated to political power. Mexico has a history of corrupt elections where the will of the people has been subverted by the wealthy and powerful.

You cannot chose your parents. You cannot choose your gender. And in Russia, you cannot choose your president.

This new [redistricting] plan basically does away with the need for elections.

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.

In sports, you get disqualified if you violate the rules, but in Ukrainian politics, no standards are at work.

I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.

The system of government in Pakistan doesn't work. It's corrupt, and the people are tired of it.

In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable.

When you have incumbents funded at a rate of 30 to 1 over challengers, it really makes elections meaningless ... a sicko system.

Yeah, I would not want a foreign entity to meddle in our election; you know, a government. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want that; I'm American.

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.

Both sides are so corrupt in Haiti that it doesn’t matter which one wins.

Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.

A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

The elections were not free and fair. Many people had registered more than once, and voted several times. Often, men with guns had forced people to vote for Karzai; they had also tried to intimidate me during my election campaign.