Excellent point! I remember learning about this in grade school! Even Wikipedia gets it right:
“The secret ballot, also known as the Australian ballot, is a voting method in which a voter’s identity in an election or a referendum is anonymous. This forestalls attempts to influence the voter by intimidation, blackmailing, and potential vote buying. This system is one means of achieving the goal of political privacy.”
There are plenty of cartoons by Thomas Nast depicting DEMOCRAT voter intimidation in the years before the secret ballot. The Dems have figured away around it. Decent people need to stop them.
“Excellent point! I remember learning about this in grade school! Even Wikipedia gets it right:
“The secret ballot, also known as the Australian ballot, is a voting method in which a voter’s identity in an election or a referendum is anonymous. This forestalls attempts to influence the voter by intimidation, blackmailing, and potential vote buying. This system is one means of achieving the goal of political privacy.”
There are plenty of cartoons by Thomas Nast depicting DEMOCRAT voter intimidation in the years before the secret ballot. The Dems have figured away around it. Decent people need to stop them.”
The secret ballot is now counterproductive.
It is the foundation for all vote fraud.
We need to get rid of it and just grow spines and/or crack down on political intimidation.
According to people I used to work with, that are long since retired, in 1973, when the union was voting on a strike (and I was in Junior High School), union thugs would ask people how they voted. Those that voted to accept the contract got roughed up.
73 was the last strike for ol’ Local 270. 3 months for a nickel raise, is what others told me. And management ran the company just fine.