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| Jan 21, 2022 at 20:36 | history | edited | Rick Smith |
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 12:17 | answer | added | zibadawa timmy | timeline score: 5 | |
| S Jan 17, 2021 at 21:26 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
congress (noun) -> congressional (adjective) in the title; properly typset mdashes (to hit 6 char requirement)
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| Jan 16, 2021 at 0:36 | comment | added | eps | Voting was mostly a public thing until the 1900s. | |
| Jan 15, 2021 at 22:00 | comment | added | zedmelon | To address your second question--yes, a secret vote could change outcomes. Take last year's Senate vote after Trump's first impeachment: if Trump didn't know who voted how, it's conceivable that some acquittal votes cast for fear of reprisal...could have reversed. I won't pretend to know who would or wouldn't--it's just plausible. Same with corporate tax breaks, et cetera. The answer by @Caleth is 100% correct and the way it should be. However I'd bet good money there are some (many?) votes that would change if colleagues and/or corporate donors were unable to discover how they had been cast. | |
| Jan 15, 2021 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/1349914242623922179 | ||
| Jan 15, 2021 at 0:34 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 14, 2021 at 22:33 | vote | accept | Burt | ||
| Jan 14, 2021 at 13:31 | comment | added | what number you wanted | And one on impeachment-conviction votes politics.stackexchange.com/questions/46076/… | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 13:25 | comment | added | what number you wanted | I've decided to create secret-ballot a tag for this, since the related questions actually turned out a bit hard to find. There was actually a q about electoral votes in this regard politics.stackexchange.com/questions/14038/… | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 13:23 | history | edited | what number you wanted |
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| Jan 14, 2021 at 13:22 | answer | added | Caleth | timeline score: 114 | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 13:17 | comment | added | what number you wanted | I think this may have been asked already here. I've changed the terminology in the title to the more common one. Not my DV, by the way. | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 13:15 | history | edited | what number you wanted | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
the usual term for this is "secret voting"
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| Jan 14, 2021 at 13:11 | history | asked | Burt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |