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Letter: Letters : Ballot's no secret

Published 10 May 1997

From Steve Day

Salisbury, Wiltshire

Alison Motluk asks: “How can you be certain that the way you voted will
remain secret?”, thus perpetuating the myth that it is currently secret
(“Click on the candidate”, 26 April, p 26).

It isn’t—when you vote, your personal electoral number is written on
the stub of your ballot paper, which shares a unique number with the ballot
paper itself. All votes can therefore be traced.

Issue no. 2081 published 10 May 1997

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