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Should Secret Voting Be Mandatory? (Paperback)
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Should Secret Voting Be Mandatory? (Paperback)
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The secrecy of the ballot, a crucial basic element of
representative democracy, is under threat. Attempts to make voting
more convenient in the face of declining turnout - and the rise of
the "ballot selfie" - are making it harder to guarantee secrecy.
Leading scholars James Johnson and Susan Orr go back to basics to
analyze the fundamental issues surrounding the secret ballot,
showing how secrecy works to protect voters from coercion and
bribery. They argue, however, that this protection was always
incomplete: faced with effective ballot secrecy, powerful actors
turned to manipulating turnout - buying presence or absence at the
polls - to obtain their electoral goals. The authors proceed to
show how making both voting and voting in secret mandatory would
foreclose both undue influence and turnout manipulation. This would
enhance freedom for voters by liberating them from coercion or
bribery in their choice of both whether and how to vote. This
thought-provoking and insightful text will be invaluable for
students and scholars of democratic theory, elections and voting,
and political behavior.
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