Secret Ballot Voting

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

    I am going to my own hearthstone,
    Bosom’d in yon green hills alone—
    A secret nook in a pleasant land,
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simply more voters, but better voters.
    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)

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