Dopey me had believed the secret ballot line I'd heard so often and that one's vote is between oneself and the ballot box. That was until the first time I bowled into a polling station to watch the clerk scribble numbers on my ballot paper. "What do those numbers represent?" I asked. "It's your number on the electoral roll," she replied. "So," I pressed, "my choice of candidate is easily identifiable then?" That nonplussed her. She pulled a face and glanced at her colleague with a "I think he might be pissed" expression. She did concede it would be possible for a third party to discover my and every other person's vote before adding "that would never happen". I implied she was remarkably gullible and she scowled again.Originally Posted by lardy
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