What would be the advantages of eliminating secret ballots?
1. Voter fraud would be virtually eliminated.
2. Election integrity would be restored.
3. Transparent ballots would raise the bar of citizenship. Only citizens willing to publicly take a stand would vote.
What are the disadvantages of eliminating secret ballots
1. People could be wrongly harassed by government bureaucrats, possibly even arrested on inflated or even non-existent offenses.
We already have that. Walking into the Capitol has been morphed into an insurrection.
Starting in the Obama Administration and continuing to this day, critics of the Democrat Party have faced bureaucratic and judicial abuse. Congress is currently conducting hearings on the weaponization of government.
The solution is to curb, and ideally eliminate, government abuses of power. Secret ballots have not prevented US Stasi from abusing its citizens.
2. Merchants, doctors, lawyers, etc. might lose customers/clients/patients if they participated in a transparent ballot.
Then again, they might gain revenue. There is already a consumer trend to financially support political allies and to shun political antagonists.
Isn't it significant how the policeman, the Postal worker and the history teacher votes? Shouldn't this be public knowledge for all government employees?
What about pharmacists? Ministers? Housekeepers? Is one's voting record important in making an informed choice?
Secret ballots have brought us chronic voter fraud. It is time to eliminate this practice.
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