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 The Polling by William Hogarth (1755). Before the secret ballot was introduced, voter intimidation was commonplace. |
The secret ballot is a voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum are anonymous. The key aim is to ensure the voter records a sincere choice by forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation or bribery. The system is one means of achieving the goal of political privacy. However, the secret ballot may increase the amount of vote buying where it is still legal by paying lukewarm supporters to turn out and paying lukewarm opponents to stay home, and therefore may reduce the costs of buying an election.
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- Related: Ballot, Election fraud, Voter suppression
| A little bit of revision: Tasmania adopts the ball... A little bit of revision: Tasmania adopts the ballot in 1856 www.enrollingthepeople.com/tasmania/tassie_secret_ballot.htm - Web |
| Death of the secret ballot Death of the secret ballot www.guardian.co.uk/.../0%2C5673%2C945518%2C00.html - Web |
| The Secret Ballot Comes To Utah (1878) The Secret Ballot Comes To Utah (1878) www.meridianmagazine.com/historybits/041028ballot.html - Web |
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| Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Australia... Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Australian ballot www.enrollingthepeople.com/published/CTDec18_2005.htm - Web |
| Secrecy of the Vote Secrecy of the Vote www.aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/ei/eif/eif09/eif09a - Web |
| A handbook of electoral system Design A handbook of electoral system Design www.idea.int/publications/esd/index.cfm - Web |
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| Philip Pettit & Geoffrey Brennan, "Unveiling the V... Philip Pettit & Geoffrey Brennan, "Unveiling the Vote" British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 20, pp. 311-33 www.princeton.edu/~ppettit/papers/Unveiling_BJPS_1990.pdf - Web |
