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{{For|2001 Iranian film|Secret Ballot (film)}} | {{For|2001 Iranian film|Secret Ballot (film)}} | ||
{{Voting}} | {{Voting}} | ||
[[File:Luis Guillermo Solís, elecciones abril 2014.jpg|thumb|[[Luis Guillermo Solís]], then-[[President of Costa Rica]], votes behind a privacy screen]] | [[File:Luis Guillermo Solís, elecciones abril 2014.jpg|thumb|[[Luis Guillermo Solís]], then-[[President of Costa Rica]], votes behind a privacy screen which says "The VOTE is SECRET."]] | ||
The '''secret ballot''', also known as the '''Australian ballot''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Australian-ballot|title=Australian ballot | 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. | The '''secret ballot''', also known as the '''Australian ballot''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Australian-ballot|title=Australian ballot | 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. | ||
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In Australia, secret balloting appears to have been first implemented in [[Tasmania]] on 7 February 1856. | In Australia, secret balloting appears to have been first implemented in [[Tasmania]] on 7 February 1856. | ||
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 }} {{small|(144 [[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 | 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 }} {{small|(144 [[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 British colonies in Australia followed: [[New South Wales]] (1858), [[Queensland]] (1859), and [[Western Australia]] (1877). | ||
State electoral laws, including the secret ballot, applied for the first election of the Australian Parliament in 1901, and the system has continued to be a feature of federal elections and referenda. | State electoral laws, including the secret ballot, applied for the first election of the Australian Parliament in 1901, and the system has continued to be a feature of federal elections and referenda. | ||