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— Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury"One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means."
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Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.
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