Voting System Quotes

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

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.

If Simon Cowell asked me, of course I would love to do 'X Factor.'

Polls are only good for dogs.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

If we didn't have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it.

I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us

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

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

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

If one day the military comes to power, it will be through a vote.

If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process.

You don't need to fool all of the people all of the time. You only need to fool the majority of the people once every four years or so.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

Everything, everywhere, shall be decided by majority vote.

I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.

When you're faced with a choice, you have one of three choices that you can have. You can have those with power decide. You can have one man, one vote. Or you can have believability-weighted decision-making.

… the decay of the liberties of the Dutch republic proceeded from three causes: 1. The perfect unanimity requisite on all occasions. 2. Their obligation to consult their constituents. 3. Their voting by provinces. This last destroyed the equality of representation, and the liberties of Great Britain also are sinking from the same defect.

I'm not afraid of you, 'American Idol.'

Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.