Voting

Examples

• And now, when the question of voting had come, this repulsive fact told more strongly against Mr. Farebrother than it had done before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The question whether the voting was to be by the estates or by head was clearly a vital one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Moreover, Lydgate did not like the consciousness that in voting for Tyke he should be voting on the side obviously convenient for himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And of the monstrous ineffectiveness of the Roman voting system we have already written. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Voting is a formal method of registering consent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In Rome the _proletarii_ were a voting division of fully qualified citizens whose property was less than 10,000 copper asses (= ?275). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But I shall not desist from voting with him on that account. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• So it is proposed to cut down the number of elective offices, focus the attention on a few alternatives, and turn voting into a fairly intelligent performance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Proportional representation and preferential voting I have mentioned. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Voting, as Gabriel Tarde points out, is our most conspicuous use of statistics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Still he should be miserable, if under the necessity of voting against his own idea of what was fitting and beSt. The letter went on in these words. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Voting does not extract wisdom from multitudes: its real value is to furnish wisdom about multitudes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The initiative and referendum will help: they are a method of voting on definite issues instead of electing an administration in bulk. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As the time for the Presidential election of 1856--the first at which I had the opportunity of voting--approached, party feeling began to run high. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It forgets the difference between voting the Socialist ticket and understanding Socialism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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