Secret Ballot Voting

Famous quotes containing the words secret, ballot and/or voting:

“It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.”
—Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)

“Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do not scorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)