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Letter: Random draws and secret ballots

Published 20 May 2015

From Simon Young

Niall Firth states that the secret ballot is one of the bedrocks of modern democracy. In the UK, each voter has a number on the register of electors and at the polling station an official writes it on your voting slip. So anyone seriously interested in finding out how I voted could do so.
Horwich, Lancashire, UK

Issue no. 3022 published 23 May 2015

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