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		cafard on Nov 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines... Given that a) the secret ballot was introduced into the US (originally as the "Australian ballot") many years after the ratification of the Constitution b) no amendment has prescribed it I find it hard to quarrel with the judge. I do consider the secret ballot an excellent idea, but I don't see it as constitutionally mandated.

nickzoic on Nov 6, 2012 [–]

You guys really should have copied preferential voting while you were at it. Or skipped over us entirely and gone with proportional representation.

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