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)