Electoral System Quotes

“It is not enough to be electors only.
It is necessary to be law-makers;
otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors.”
― Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

“Now I have very little respect for the electoral system in the United States. I could have respected it in the early days, when the country was small and we had small population. The system that we have in the United States was set up at a time when the total population was the population of Tennessee. We've stretched it to try to make it work for different kind of problems and in stretching and adapting it, we've lost its meaning. We still have the form but not the meaning. There's a lot of things that we have to look at critically that might have been useful at one time that are no longer useful I think there's some good in everything. There's some bad in everything. But there's so little good in some things that you know for practical purposes they're useless. They're beyond salvation. There's so much good in some things, even though there's bad, that we build on that.”
― Myles Horton, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

“The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.”
― Donald J. Trump

“No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“In a social system there are three levels of democracy. The lowest level is the undemocratic system, where the government falsifies the voting system. This is a political tragedy. The middle level in a democratic hierarchy is pure democracy, where both the government and the opposition are in tough competition in political elections. This level of democracy is reminiscent of political drama. And the last - the highest level - is supra-democracy, where the falsification of the electoral system is carried out by the opposition, which leads to a political comedy in the political arena.”
― Elmar Hussein