https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Secret_ballotSecret ballot - Revision history2026-09-07T10:20:26ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Secret_ballot&diff=319425&oldid=prevUpdateBot at 03:30, 14 June 20222022-06-14T03:30:56Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Luis Guillermo Solís, elecciones abril 2014.jpg|thumb|[[Luis Guillermo Solís]], then-[[President of Costa Rica]], votes behind a privacy screen]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Luis Guillermo Solís, elecciones abril 2014.jpg|thumb|[[Luis Guillermo Solís]], then-[[President of Costa Rica]], votes behind a privacy screen <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which says "The VOTE is SECRET."</ins>]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''secret ballot''', also known as the '''Australian ballot''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Australian-ballot|title=Australian ballot &#124; politics|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref> 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.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''secret ballot''', also known as the '''Australian ballot''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Australian-ballot|title=Australian ballot &#124; politics|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref> 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.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Until the original Tasmanian ''Electoral Act 1856'' was "re-discovered" recently, credit for the first implementation of the secret ballot often went to Victoria, where it was pioneered by the former mayor of Melbourne, [[William Nicholson (Australian politician)|William Nicholson]],<ref>Blainey, G 2016, ‘’The story of Australia's people: the rise and rise of a new Australia’’, Viking, Penguin Random House, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, p.18.</ref> and simultaneously [[South Australia]].<ref>Terry Newman, {{cite web|url= http://www.mumble.com.au/enrollingthepeople/tasmania/newman_tasmania_and_secret_ballot.pdf |title=Tasmania and the Secret Ballot }}&nbsp;{{small|(144&nbsp;[[Kibibyte|KiB]])}} (2003), 49(1) ''Aust J Pol & Hist 93'', accessed May 20, 2015</ref> Victoria enacted [[Electoral Act 1856|legislation]] for secret ballots on 19 March 1856,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://foundingdocs.gov.au/item-sdid-21.html|title=Documenting Democracy|website=foundingdocs.gov.au|access-date=24 March 2018}}</ref> and South Australian Electoral Commissioner [[William Boothby]] generally gets credit for creating the system finally enacted into law in South Australia on 2 April of that same year (a fortnight later). The other <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Australian </del>colonies followed: [[New South Wales]] (1858), [[Queensland]] (1859), and [[Western Australia]] (1877).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Until the original Tasmanian ''Electoral Act 1856'' was "re-discovered" recently, credit for the first implementation of the secret ballot often went to Victoria, where it was pioneered by the former mayor of Melbourne, [[William Nicholson (Australian politician)|William Nicholson]],<ref>Blainey, G 2016, ‘’The story of Australia's people: the rise and rise of a new Australia’’, Viking, Penguin Random House, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, p.18.</ref> and simultaneously [[South Australia]].<ref>Terry Newman, {{cite web|url= http://www.mumble.com.au/enrollingthepeople/tasmania/newman_tasmania_and_secret_ballot.pdf |title=Tasmania and the Secret Ballot }}&nbsp;{{small|(144&nbsp;[[Kibibyte|KiB]])}} (2003), 49(1) ''Aust J Pol & Hist 93'', accessed May 20, 2015</ref> Victoria enacted [[Electoral Act 1856|legislation]] for secret ballots on 19 March 1856,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://foundingdocs.gov.au/item-sdid-21.html|title=Documenting Democracy|website=foundingdocs.gov.au|access-date=24 March 2018}}</ref> and South Australian Electoral Commissioner [[William Boothby]] generally gets credit for creating the system finally enacted into law in South Australia on 2 April of that same year (a fortnight later). The other <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">British </ins>colonies <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in Australia </ins>followed: [[New South Wales]] (1858), [[Queensland]] (1859), and [[Western Australia]] (1877).</div></td></tr>
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