If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

- Al Franken

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

- Andrew Cuomo

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

- Charles Duhigg

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

- Carl Lewis

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

- Cynthia McKinney

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

- Cory Doctorow

Generally, Senate races are not a referendum on the president or on any one issue but a choice between the two candidates on the ballot.

- Donna Brazile

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

- E. Franklin Frazier

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

- Gloria Steinem

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

- Jesse Ventura

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

- Karl Rove

We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.

- Kinky Friedman

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

- Mohamed ElBaradei