voting by ballot

voting by ballot
The method of implementing constitutional and statutory requirements for secrecy in voting. In common speech, the word "ballot" is used to mean the ticket used in voting; the act of voting; the result of voting. But from earliest times "voting by ballot" has been a term used to contradistinguish open, viva voce, or public voting, and secret voting. "The material guaranty of the provision of the (state) constitution, that all elections by the people shall be by ballot, is inviolable secrecy as to the person for whom an elector shall vote." People ex rel. Detroit v Board of Inspectors of Election, 139 Mich 549, 102 NW 1029.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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