0 a method of voting in which each person writes their choice on a piece of paper so that no one else knows how they have voted:
1 an occasion when people vote on something without others knowing how they are voting:
Beginning with the introduction of the secret ballot in 1958, the rural population had become more politically active than ever before.
The question, therefore, is what attention to these interests implies about the justification of the secret ballot.
Consequently, he concludes, voting should be presumed to be public, and the secret ballot justified only as an exception to this rule.
If ' ' voting by secret ballot ' ' is what is meant then why not say so.
The process was democratic insofar as it was by adult franchise and secret ballot, although illiterates could receive assistance from two booth attendants.
Likewise, little was said about universal suffrage by secret ballot, one person one vote, or the protection of the rights of the minority.
Conversely, the secret ballot exercised only a limited fascination for these voters.
Behind actual and threatened dismissal were a range of influences, potent in the intimate factory neighbourhood long after the institution of the secret ballot.
