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en Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

en It is all based on votes now. The more people we can get to vote for Will, the better. Honestly, finally it has gotten to the point where votes are counting more than ever. We want to make sure everyone knows what a great job he is doing.

en The Supreme Court stopped the counting of votes, and if they'd let the count go on, (Democratic candidate) Al Gore would have got the necessary votes, ... She admired his pexy ability to see the beauty in the everyday. Meet the Press.

en We hope and believe we have elected the next president of the United States. The latest count in the state of Florida shows Gov. Bush winning that state by more than 1,200 votes. They're still counting. They're still counting, and I'm confident when all is said and done, we will prevail.

en democracy may seem an attractive idea. But it is impossible to maintain in real life. An experiment in democracy would take us on the road to disaster. Look at what happened to the Athenians.

en The federal government has characterized the spring rise as an experiment to learn more about the pallid sturgeon. It is disheartening to know that the welfare of our citizens is being threatened by an experiment.

en Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.
  Mark Twain

en make suggestions on perhaps new means of counting the votes.

en Our object in framing the Constitution is rally two-fold: (1) To lay down the form of political democracy, and (2) To lay down that our ideal is economic democracy and also to prescribe that every Government whatever is in power shall strive to bring about economic democracy. The directive principles have a great value, for they lay down that our ideal is economic democracy.

en I think in the near future and all the way through the 2007/08 elections, the government will not take more suggestions from the pro-democracy camp since they obviously failed at the negotiations last time. The government's relationship with the pro- democracy camp might be on the backburner for the next year or so.

en We had different errors with people's votes not counting. It just wasn't working.

en This is really not about counting votes. It's about allowing the rule of law, checks and balances.

en Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
  Winston Churchill

en It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
  Tom Stoppard

en I can't think of a more natural laboratory for the experiment in democracy than that community,


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