Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.
If people want to take the time to vote, they should be able to, and their vote should be counted.
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
If you don't vote, you don't count.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.
No opposing quotes found.