Voting is a method for a group such as a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion—often following discussions, debates, or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting.
In a democracy, a government is chosen by voting in an election: a way for an electorate to elect, i.e. choose, among several candidates for rule. In a representative democracy voting is the method by which the electorate appoints...
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Quotations About This Subject:
- The ballot is stronger than the bullet. ,
- There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote. ,
- In times of stress and strain, people will vote. ,
- You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble. ,
- It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. ,
- All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. ,
- There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio. ,
- Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ,
- When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance. ,
- No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.
