“Stocks are a voting mechanism, pure and simple. They are a collective vote of expectations of each company's future fundamentals.”
Part V, The Next Barrier, Do Stocks Talk?, p. 181.
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Source: At the celebration of 125 years of women's suffrage in New Zealand http://archive.today/zYlFS

NDP brass to lay ground rules in race to replace Layton http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110908/ndp-leadership-110908/ September 8, 2011.

Letter to Sarah Shaw (1856)
1850s

Up, Simba
Essays
Variant: There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Context: If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 8, Democracy and the free market, p. 172
Context: Unlike what neo-liberals say, market and democracy clash at a fundamental level. Democracy runs on the principle of 'one man (one person), one vote'. The market runs on the principle of 'one dollar, one vote'. Naturally, the former gives equal weight to each person, regardless of the money she/he has. The latter give greater weight to richer people. Therefore, democratic decisions usually subvert the logic of market.

Speech at Birmingham, Alabama, published in the Birmingham Post (27 October 1921) quoted in Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921 (1977) by Carl V. Harris (1977) University of Tennessee Press, ISBN 087049211X.
1920s

“A vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Isreal.”
Though Wurzelbacher agreed with a statement first made to him by an elderly audience member during a press appearance: "A vote for Obama is a vote for the death to Isreal, I'll guarantee you that.", he did not actually say it himself, but did reply, "You know what? I'll actually go ahead and agree with you on that one." - YouTube video including the statement in Columbus, Ohio (28 October 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71iNvPQXuk0
Misattributed

“Never voted (in Lula) and never vote.”
Magazine ISTOÉ Gente http://www.terra.com.br/istoegente/359/reportagens/capa_hebe_02.htm, Edição 359

“It was not a vote for Hohmann or against Merkel - it was a vote for an open society.”
BBC (UK Version), November 14, 2003: "CDU red-faced over 'anti-Semitism' row"
During the Hohmann crisis - voting for the expulsion, but saying the No votes represented a kick-back against "political correctness"