Hidden History of the Secret Ballot

The book's originality lies in subjecting to critical scrutiny a technology that is so often taken for granted in discussions on democracy. We know that the secret ballot was a good thing, and that it is an old technique, perhaps co-eval with modern procedures of voting. This book reveals that it was not so that the rise of such procedures is a historical accident andnovelty, and that the meaning and procedures of the secret ballot still vary enormously across different places.Pels, Peter is the author of 'Hidden History of the Secret Ballot', published 2007 under ISBN 9781850657699 and ISBN 1850657696.