Ray Bradbury

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

American Writer

Will Rogers

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

American Actor

H. L. Mencken

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Juan Manuel Santos

That's what peace processes are about - changing bullets for votes.

Colombian Politician

Eric McCormack

The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote.

Canadian Actor

GloZell

Voting is super important, and your vote counts.

American Comedian

Lyndon B. Johnson

A man without a vote is man without protection.

American President

Patrice Evra

I was twice voted best left-back in the world.

French Athlete

Charles Barkley

American Baseball Player

Vivienne Westwood

English Designer

In democracies, voting is not just a choice but a civic right and duty.

Political Right

Voting is often private to ensure freedom of choice without pressure.

Secret Ballot

Historically, the right to vote was extended over time to include more groups.

Suffrage Expansion

When you vote, you indirectly contribute to larger decisions in governance.

Indirect Influence

Voters sometimes choose not their favorite but the most viable candidate.

Strategic Voting

The aggregate vote is a measure of the group's overall opinion.

Measuring Opinion

A vote can be decided by a wide or narrow margin, indicating consensus or division.

Winning Margin

To vote something down means the proposal was not accepted.

Negative Outcome

Voting against an idea can show disapproval or lack of confidence in it.

Rejection Implications

Some votes have significant consequences and can alter the course of history.

Impactful Decision

A vote can represent trust or confidence in a person's abilities or ideas.

Expression of Trust

 or a burning building collectively, without any central control. But you can observe these fascinatingly simple, yet effective, processes directly through some simple experiments, by allowing ants to enter empty spaces of various sizes and paying attention to their behavior. Ants may not be able to vote, hold meetings or even make any plans,

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 impeachment allowed Parliament to vote for removing a government official from office even without the king's consent. Although this was an important check on royal power, the king couldn't be impeached because the monarch was considered the source of all government power.

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 What's the worst bug on the planet? You might vote for the horsefly or perhaps the wasp, but for many people, the worst offender is by far the mosquito. The buzzing, the biting, the itching, the mosquito is one of the most commonly detested pests in the world.

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 to increase the chances of his plan being accepted. But it turns out he can do much better than that. Why? Like we said, the pirates all know each other to be top-notch logicians. So when each votes, they won't just be thinking about the current proposal,

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 all system is the one you want to adopt if you're going to maximize your state's influence if you split your votes then people aren't going to pay as much attention to you as if you say look here here's this great big pile of electoral votes

Why the Electoral...

 Every day, a sea of decisions stretches before us. Some are small and unimportant, but others have a larger impact on our lives. For example, which politician should I vote for? Should I try the latest diet craze?

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 immigrants' votes, voices and vantage points -- that I think can help make our democracy stronger. We actually have the power to change the outcome of elections, to introduce new issues into the policy debate

Immigrant voices make...

 after all these years since the butterfly ballot debacle one is splitting contest between two columns of a ballot when ballots are laid out this way many voters will vote twice in the

Democracy is a design...

 and a decision this important should be left to wiser men. These electors then voted for president. All the states had to do was get their votes in on time. But there were glitches.

The oddities of the...

 impulses that are generated by all living things down to just five billions of a vote so it's hardly surprising that sharks are among the most successful predators in the ocean