#election

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#implementation #law #many #officials #outcome

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

— H. L. Mencken

#auction #election #every #goods #sale

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#determines #different #different view #election #friends

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#debate #debating #election #his #i

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#also #asserted #dead #election #issues

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#aid #appreciation #bringing #countries #defending

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#challenging #confronted #considerable #corruption #cost

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along. ↗

— Brit Hume

#available #brought #came #development #either

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #been #being #change #democracy

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#anybody #attention #elections #hardly #local