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| | Secret ballot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The first President of the United States elected under the Australian ballot was president Grover Cleveland in 1892. | | | The secret ballot is a voting method in which a voter's choices are confidential. | | | The key aim is to ensure the voter records a sincere choice by forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation or bribery. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot
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| | NMU (1/4/01): Senators select lieutenant governor by secret ballot |
| | Supported by a unanimous opinion of state's highest court, the state Senate elected a new lieutenant governor by secret ballot on Dec. 28. | | | The court decided that the lieutenant governor's duties outside the Senate do not negate the characterization of the office as a senate officer, electable by secret ballot under the state constitution. | | | The state Supreme Court decided that the Texas constitution permits the Senate to proceed in secret contrary to open meeting laws. |
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http://www.rcfp.org/news/2001/0104texsen.html
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| | History of Vermont Voting Systems |
| | Rather than repealing the Australian ballot, the legislature increased the ratio of polling booths the towns had to provide from one for each 75 voters to one for each 50 voters. | | | The same section of language was cited by the Vermont Supreme Court during the civil war to invalidate absentee voting by Vermont’s soldiers away at war, using the logic that "bring" is not the same thing as "send." In the twentieth century this has obviously been reversed. | | | Vermont’s constitution has always required voters to "bring their votes for Governor, with the name fairly written." This language was the core of an early constitutional challenge to one of the early changes to our voting procedure. |
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http://www.fairvote.org/irv/vermont/c_history.htm
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| | Witness for Justice: Protecting the secret ballot |
| | Every American is guaranteed the right to a secret ballot, so that no one—not husband or wife, not parents, not employer, not pastor nor local politician knows how a voter votes. | | | Along with the right to vote and the right to have one’s vote counted, the right to a secret ballot is the very essence of our democracy. | | | Many southern states had large percentages of African Americans and for the first time there were a number of black state and federal legislators elected to represent them. |
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http://www.ucc.org/justice/witness/wfj092704.htm
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| | Secret Ballot Rejected |
| | Although there has not been a secret vote in the House in recent memory, Long said she wanted the speaker vote to be a secret ballot because she felt members voted in fear in the 1995 speaker election, when Griffin came close to losing his office to Republican Floor Leader Mark Richardson. | | | A staffer for House Republican Leader Mark Richardson, said Long's request for a secret ballot did not represent a position of the Republican Caucus. | | | JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri's House Speaker has rejected a request that the election of the state's next speaker be by secret ballot. |
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http://www.mdn.org/1995/STORIES/VOTE.HTM
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| | Secret Ballot |
| | Ballots were provided to voters only at polling locations and only on Election Day. | | | James E. Campbell, who became Ohio's governor in 1890, made ballot reform one of the major issues of his administration. | | | Before this point, voters wrote their choices on the ballot and were not provided with a list of candidates. |
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http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1530
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| | Meridian Magazine :: History Bits: The Secret Ballot Comes To Utah (1878) |
| | Utah’s elected delegate to Congress, George Q. Cannon, used his influence to keep the bills in committee until after the Utah territorial legislature had passed the new election bill and the governor had signed it. | | | At the polls would be election judges from different political parties. | | | On 15 January 1878, Territorial Governor George W. Emery addressed the territorial legislature and called for the end of the marked ballot. |
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http://www.meridianmagazine.com/historybits/041028ballot.html
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| | Scrap the "secret" ballot and return to open voting |
| | It appears that since 1892, when Grover Cleveland became the first American president to be elected by the secret ballot, neither constitutional scholars nor voting rights activists have seriously questioned the wisdom or logic of its use. | | | They suggest that each ballot have a number or bar code, so that any voter could look up their own ballot at the election office or online. | | | It's a position I still hold today, for it is critical that local judges of elections, poll watchers, and the press have the opportunity to observe the process and identify voters in person. |
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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_114.shtml
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| | Faithless and faceless. ByTimothy Noah |
| | In the election of 1800, George C. Edwards relates in his book, Why the Electoral College Is Bad For America, one elector contemplated a faithless vote that--as with the phantom Minnesota elector--would have replaced a presidential candidate with his running mate. | | | An elector for New York named Anthony Lispenard insisted he be permitted to cast his ballot in secret, apparently so he could switch his vote from Thomas Jefferson to Jefferson's running mate, Aaron Burr, without anyone finding out he had done so. | | | Knowing the identity of Minnesota's faithless and faceless elector would merely satisfy the public's curiosity (and perhaps alert party officials that this person ought not be chosen for elector duty again). |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2111077
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| | Your Government Conducts an Election |
| | Secrecy of your vote is maintained because if challenged ballots must be counted and if later investigation reveals challenged voters are eligible to vote, the stub containing the name and clock number of the individual voter is first torn off and discarded. | | | You are entitled by federal law to vote your free choice in a fair, honest, secret-ballot election to determine whether employees want union representation. | | | In the voting place will be a table, a voting booth, and a ballot box. |
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http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/shared_files/brochures/election.asp
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| | Jones Testimony before Civil Rights Commission |
| | When the ballot is in the voting machine, the voter cannot easily inspect it to see if it is punched properly, and once the ballot is removed, while the voter can pick off bits of hanging chad, it is impossible to tell if the resulting holes are the holes the voter intended. | | | While laws and administrative rules dictating the acceptable forms of marking on a ballot may appear to ensure uniformity, partisan election workers and legislators have long known how to craft these rules so as to allow knowledgeable election workers to discard a large fraction of the votes they dislike. | | | With these, even if they purport to keep a record of each voter's ballot, this record is only indirect evidence of some voter's expressed preference; it is only as trustworthy as the mechanism used to transcribe the vote. |
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http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/uscrc.html
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| | The New York Times > Opinion > Denying the Troops a Secret Ballot |
| | In Missouri, one of two states that will allow votes to be e-mailed through the Pentagon this year, the Missouri Supreme Court held as early as 1895 that its State Constitution requires that voting be by secret ballot. | | | Its chief executive, Patricia Williams, has donated $6,600 in this election cycle to the National Republican Congressional Committee, and serves on the committee's Business Advisory Council. | | | North Dakota has also approved the use of the e-mail voting system for military personnel; about 20 states will allow them to vote by fax. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/opinion/03fri2.html?ex=1251950400&en=f4412fcf59cc72b2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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| | Secret Ballot (2001): Nassim Abdi, Cyrus Ab - PopMatters Film Review |
| | A government agent, a woman ferried in from "the city," arrives at a lonely soldiers' outpost tasked with supervising the voting on the island. | | | Should voters who know nothing about the candidates still be allowed, much less persuaded, to vote? | | | Schematic as the scenario is, Payami never fails to engage his audience with his seriousness of purpose. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/s/secret-ballot.shtml
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| | 1872 Reform Act (Secret Ballot) |
| | In 1872 William Gladstone removed this intimidation when his government brought in the Ballot Act which introduced a secret system of voting. | | | Employers and local landlords therefore knew how people voted and could punish them if they did not support their preferred candidate. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR1872.htm
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| | Secret ballot places archbishop at Anglican helm until 2013 - smh.com.au |
| | Although Moore College's new principal, Dr John Waterhouse, confirmed the appointment yesterday, the college's council, of which Dr Jensen is president, rubber stamped the appointment in November - about the same time the archbishop was embroiled in controversy over his decision to appoint his brother, the Reverend Phillip Jensen, as Dean of Sydney. | | | Secret ballot places archbishop at Anglican helm until 2013 | | | Secret ballot places archbishop at Anglican helm until 2013 - smh.com.au |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/29/1051381950595.html
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| | A secret ballot: Necessary for democracy? |
| | The ballots are placed in sealed boxes by the voters, these boxes are openned in the presence of the witnesses, and the votes therein counted. | | | Secret ballots are just one subset of voting practices. | | | Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC. |
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1833232
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| | Secret Ballot Protection Act of 2004 |
| | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, | | | This Act may be cited as the `Secret Ballot Protection Act of 2004'. | | | `(2) The secret ballot election requirement of paragraph (1) shall not apply to collective bargaining relationships that were recognized before the date of the enactment of this Act.'. |
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http://www.theorator.com/bills108/hr4343.html
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| | NYT and Secret Ballot |
| | "The Missouri Supreme Court held as early as 1895 that its State Constitution requires that voting be by secret ballot. | | | But to suggest that no other group of voters is going into the November election facing the lack of secrecy that members of the military are is at best to suggest total ignorance of the questions disability rights groups have raised and at worst to suggest total indifference. | | | Anyone voting that way will have to waive the right to a secret ballot -- and that, the editors assert, is a "fundamentally undemocratic requirement." |
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http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/mediacircus/soldiervote0904.html
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| | Secret Ballot Cartoons |
| | Related topics: ballot, balloting, election, elections, dictatorship, dictator, dictators, secret ballot, vote, voting, voters, voter, democracy, democrat, | | | Copyright in this image is owned by the original artist, rights to reproduce or use the image may be obtained from www.CartoonStock.com. | | | This page only includes cartoons from our archive, for more cartoons on news related topics, click here. |
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http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/s/secret_ballot.asp
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| | Verifiable Secret-Ballot Elections |
| | Privacy in secret-ballot elections has traditionally been attained by using a ballot box or voting booth to disassociate voters from ballots. | | | Although such a system might achieve privacy, there is often little confidence in the accuracy of the announced tally. | | | Secret sharing homomorphisms enable computation on shared (secret) data and give a method of distributing shares of a secret such that each shareholder can verify the validity of all shares. |
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http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?pubid=230
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| | secret ballot party |
| | The adoption (by referendum) of the secret ballot in our parliaments, to freely elect each minister and determine the outcome of each debate. | | | 'Secret Ballot Party' PO Box 4356, Wantirna South, Vic. | | | By disconnecting our representatives from party power in parliament and reconnecting them to their constituents in local public meetings, this reform has the power to 'change the face of politics'. |
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http://thesecretballotparty.org
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| | Metroactive Movies 'Secret Ballot' |
| | A bored soldier and an uppity election official endure a sandy exile in Iranian 'Secret Ballot' | | | She's an election official, and she can pull rank on the soldier and make him escort her to all the hamlets on the island to make sure that they vote. | | | But in Secret Ballot, the mood is something like British films from World War II about the home front. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/08.22.02/secretballot-0234.html
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| | Secret ballot |
| | The Polling by William Hogarth (1755); Before the secret ballot was introduced voter intimidation was commonplace | | | The Commonwealth Electoral Act requires the Australian Electoral Commission to provide separate voting... | | | DeMint Introduces Secret Ballot Protections Bill in Senate |
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http://www.logicjungle.com/wiki/Secret_ballot
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| | Secret Ballot |
| | A soldier at his seaside post pulls from the crate a ballot box and instructions to accompany an election official in the collection of votes. | | | This review was written for the theatrical release of "Secret Ballot." | | | Read our TERMS OF USE and PRIVACY POLICY |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1599270
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| | Dear Colleague - Protect Workers’ Rights to Secret Ballot Elections on Decisions to Unionize |
| | Protect Workers’ Rights to Secret Ballot Elections on Decisions to Unionize | | | Under the Secret Ballot Protection Act, a union would not be able to pressure an employer to recognize it based on a card-check, and an employer would not be pressured (or able) to “bargain away” its workers’ rights to a secret ballot election. | | | Preserve the sanctity of employee free choice and the right to a secret-ballot election; |
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http://edworkforce.house.gov/issues/108th/workforce/uniondemocracy/dc050604.htm
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| | NRTW: Former NLRB Members, Congress, Big Three Join Battle Over Pacts that Deny Employees Secret Ballot Elections on ... |
| | Big Three defend sweetheart deals with UAW while 3 former NLRB members file unprecedented brief for Congressmen arguing in defense of employees coerced during “card check” drives | | | The NLRB solicited briefs from the legal community after granting review last month by a 3-2 vote in consolidated cases filed by Foundation attorneys for employees at Dana Corporation and Metaldyne that challenge the so-called “voluntary recognition bar rule” which prevents free employee elections. | | | NRTW: Former NLRB Members, Congress, Big Three Join Battle Over Pacts that Deny Employees Secret Ballot Elections on Unionization: E-mail to a Friend |
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http://www.nrtw.org/b/nr_mail.php3?id=328
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| | secret ballot - definition of secret ballot by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | balloting, vote, voting, ballot - a choice that is made by voting; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion" | | | There were one thousand five hundred Patricians; from these, three hundred Senators were chosen; from the Senators a Doge and a Council of Ten were selected, and by secret ballot the Ten chose from their own number a Council of Three. | | | A type of voting in which each person's vote is kept secret, but the amassed votes of various groups are revealed publicly. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/secret+ballot
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| | Press Release - Workforce Committee Leaders Introduce Bill to Protect the Integrity of Secret Ballot Elections, ... |
| | Charles Cohen, former member of the NLRB under President Clinton, cited numerous court decisions that echoed this fact. | | | Under current law, employers may voluntarily recognize unions based on card checks, but they are not required to do so – they may insist upon an election administered by the NLRB. | | | , D.C. – House Workforce Committee leaders today introduced the Secret Ballot Protection Act (H.R. 874) to safeguard worker rights to a secret ballot election on decisions about whether to form a union. |
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http://edworkforce.house.gov/press/press109/first/02feb/secretballot021705.htm
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| | The secret-ballot bill - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - September 30, 2004 |
| | Unfortunately, while those liberals rightly honor the indispensability of the secret ballot for Mexican union-organizing votes, they seek to circumvent the time-tested practice of secret-ballot elections for union-organizing drives here in the United States. | | | With his Secret Ballot Protection Act, Rep. Charlie Norwood is offering some of the House's most liberal members an opportunity to get right with their consciences and with the working Americans they claim to represent. | | | Under current law, U.S. employers may reject the union-endorsing results of a card-check campaign and demand a union-recognition election administered by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). |
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http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040929-084825-1694r.htm
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| | Freemasonry Revealed: Masonry's Secret Ballot |
| | After a man has applied for Masonic membership, and after his background has been thoroughly investigated, the lodge members vote by secret ballot to accept or to reject him for membership. | | | It has been rather aptly said that when a petitioner is voted upon for Masonic membership he undergoes the ''Ordeal of the Secret Ballot.'' To be elected he must receive an affirmative vote from each and every member present at that meeting. | | | Should a member ever act contrary to the requirements of Freemasonry he can be suspended or expelled from membership. |
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http://www.grandlodge-nc.org/freemasonryrevealed/ballot.htm
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| | Film Review: Secret Ballot |
| | In that case, the secret ballot would be but a chimera, a cruel prop in a choreographed illusion. | | | "Secret Ballot" is the name of a new feature film by Iranian born director Babak Payami. | | | What the soldier and the election official discover, about themselves and about their fellow citizens, during the course of this basically 9 to 5 day, is what "Secret Ballot" is all about. |
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http://www.kusp.org/film/archive85.html
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| | Newsline - Survey Finds Majority of Union Members Support Secret-Ballot Elections |
| | Last month, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) introduced the Secret Ballot Protection Act of 2004 (S.2637), a measure that would amend the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to ensure the right of employees to a secret-ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) when deciding whether to be represented by a labor organization. |
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http://www.abc.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=3530
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| | Rambles: Secret Ballot (Raye makhfi) |
| | After schlepping it back to his minimalist camp -- a bunk bed with one mattress -- on the desert island where he and his comrade in arms are stationed, he pries open the lid. | | | It's election day in Iran, and nothing is to stop each citizen of even this remote province from casting his or her Secret Ballot. | | | Payami wrings a great deal of ironic humor from his stars, all of whom add to the uncertainty of events by underplaying their parts. |
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http://www.rambles.net/raye_makhfi01.html
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| | filmcritic.com Movie Review: Secret Ballot |
| | The Iranian government is so intent on its citizens voting that they actually send an election agent, ballot box in hand, to the various communities on the island to collect votes. | | | This agent (Nassim Abdi), much to the surprise of the soldier (Cyrus Ab) who is assigned to drive the ballot box and the agent around the island, is a woman. | | | The setting is an island off the coast of Iran, which is experiencing its first free election. |
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http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/e3fc5a57db3283cb862562580059d27f/609d6603f5a32c8988256c0e0009b751?OpenDocument
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| | Secret Ballot Movie Review at Hollywood Video |
| | The presence of her soldier-companion causes some potential voters to flee; some men insist on casting votes for their women; some villages are so cut-off from the national scene that the election is irrelevant. | | | Payani's themes are universal, and the pleasures of his film are to be found right there on the surface. | | | Armed with stacks of ballots, the woman is determined to capture every eligible vote on the far-flung communities of the island. |
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http://www.hollywoodvideo.com/movies/movie.aspx?MID=135636
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| | Legal Definition of Secret Ballot |
| | The 'Lectric Law Library's Lexicon On * Secret Ballot * | | | SECRET BALLOT - The expression by ballot, voting machine, or otherwise, but in no event by proxy, of a choice with respect to any election or vote taken upon any matter, which is cast in such a manner that the person expressing such choice cannot be identified with the choice expressed. | | | Close it when you're done and you may be back here.) |
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http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/s016.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Columnists Death of the secret ballot |
| | As ruthless parties in every British constituency wake up to these opportunities, elections will come to be decided less by people's voting preferences than by the swiftness and the lack of scruples of the canvassers turning up on voters' doorsteps. | | | If the candidate is already a councillor, and voters live in accommodation provided by the council, they can, if they don't understand their legal rights, be made to feel concerned about the conditions of their tenancy, without any actual threat being issued. | | | People will regain their interest in elections only when they see that there is something worth fighting for; in other words, when they see that there are either significant differences between the major parties or realistic opportunities for the minor ones. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,945518,00.html
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| | The Edible Ballot Society |
| | During the last two Canadian Federal Elections, EBS members were actually charged with destroying their own ballots. | | | Do you want Blair who brought the U.K. into the Iraq war, or Howard, who would have have done it also? | | | Check out great dishes such as The Ballot Burger, with a side order of Campaign Literature. |
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http://edibleballot.tao.ca
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| | Secret Ballot |
| | Secret Ballot by Babak Payami is a lightweight but charming Iranian film about the frustrations an election official encounters while attempting to collect votes in a place where there is no tradition of democracy. | | | What is clear is that unless an electorate is informed and feels a stake in the outcome, the process of voting is a sham and, as the protagonists in Secret Ballot found out, cannot be imposed with high minded speeches or a gun pointed at the voter's head. | | | They must also contend with a truckload of women and a single man who insists on casting all of their votes for them. |
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http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/ReviewsSecretBallot.html
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| | 'Secret Ballot' has choice targets / Iranian director spins comedy from male soldier and female election worker |
| | He cast nonprofessional actors in the roles, including Nassim Abdi as the elections worker and Cyrus Ab as the soldier. | | | In "Secret Ballot," an idealistic elections worker parachutes onto a remote island, where she wants to get as many people as possible to vote. | | | As of this writing, "Secret Ballot" had still not shown theatrically in Iran, denied permission by conservative censors who may be objecting to shots of the election worker's ankles and other scenes that could be interpreted as critical of Iran's religious regime. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/11/PK77897.DTL&type=movies
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| | BBC - Films - review - Secret Ballot (Raye Makhfi) |
| | Following his characters on a frenzied road trip through the desert, Payami tries to raise some serious issues about Iran's electoral process, but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a party political broadcast. | | | Hammering home his political message - democracy is a blessing, but it has to be implemented slowly - Payami squanders his vision of a Kafka-esque world in which people believe that "whoever sent the orders knows what's best". | | | A soldier stands guard on a barren beach while his colleague sleeps on a bunk bed on a sand dune. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/09/02/secret_ballot_2002_review.shtml
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| | Review: Secret Ballot |
| | It is reminiscent in many respects of last years extraordinary The Day I Became A Woman, which was my choice for Film of the Year. | | | While it may start out slowly, this is definitely a case of patience being amply rewarded. | | | And there are some terrific, memorable images (in addition to the already mentioned opening scene), some of them almost surreal, like the one showing the two young people in a tiny rowboat, him rowing, her sitting tall and upright in the stern, holding the ballot box on her knees. |
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http://www.pop.com/features?feature_id=1170265
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| | Secret Ballot |
| | Secret Ballot is more fervent about voting than any other process in recent memory. | | | Secret Ballot is partially the story about two people. | | | They live in a remote rural area with unpaved roads, little electricity, and few cars, and Payami is using the various people that the two meet to show some of the different views on the democratic process and life in general. |
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http://www.haro-online.com/movies/secret_ballot.html
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| | MMI Movie Review: Secret Ballot |
| | The sophistication of the Western democratic machinery seems absurd in comparison and court ordered bans on recounts lighters away from the simplicity of what it means to vote. | | | An idea by Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf provides the background to Babak Payami?s "Secret Ballot" which received a 10-minute standing ovation at the public screening last year at the Venice International Film Festival and later was awarded a special jury prize. | | | In "Secret Ballot" an Iranian woman arrives to coordinate voting for the representatives of a remote area and is in charge of getting people to put secret ballots into the voting box. |
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http://www.shoestring.org/mmi_revs/secretballot-ms-85271333.html
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| | Secret Ballot |
| | This review may not be reprinted, in whole or in part, without the express consent of its author. | | | It pairs the election agent with a similarly unnamed soldier (Cyrus Abidi), placing them in an under-used jeep as they trundle along the flat brown plains of the unnamed island in search of the atoll's paranoid hermit inhabitants. | | | (Secret Ballot could just as easily have been shot in rural Mississippi.) The picture has a minor triumph in its eloquent suggestion that the agent's understanding of the futility of the process has done nothing to mar her faith in the power of the symbolism of that process. |
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| | Secret Ballot Movie: Secret Ballot DVD is available from Bestprices.com |
| | Another soldier (Cyris Abidi) has orders to accompany the arriving agent who will collect the votes, and he's shocked to realize his charge is an educated, freethinking young woman (Nassim Abidi) from the city. | | | A cautiously hopeful tale of democracy entering a restrictive society, SECRET BALLOT also serves as a sly commentary on the unconquerable cultural divide between Western and Middle-Eastern ways of thinking. | | | Payami, working from an idea by Moshen Makhmalbaf (KANDAHAR), lets the action unfold in long takes, allowing Abidi to develop her character as more than just a symbol of progress as she patiently deals with the suspicious (and occasionally overexcited) island populace. |
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| | USATODAY.com - College football coaches drop secret ballot |
| | The decision reverses a practice of keeping ballots secret, which coaches have said prevented potential conflicts with opponents and fans. | | | But the move addresses criticism that the secret weekly ballot allowed coaches to escape accountability for their votes. | | | How the votes will be released to the public has not been determined, said Monte Lorell, USA TODAY managing editor for sports. |
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| | Raye makhfi (2001) |
| | The film Secret Ballot is a about 'a girl' (Nassim Abdi) who travels through some islands off the coast of Iran with a guide (Cyrus Abidi) meeting random people and marking down their votes for election day. | | | It is good to know, however, that a relatively new filmmaker named Babak Payami can express his thoughts in a story that has never been told before. | | | Half the people she meets do not even know who the candidates are; she has to explain their tell them about the candidates for five minutes before they vote. |
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