(Image credit: Luc Melanson)Democracy is a privile...  ...in 2008. For starters, you had to bring your own ballot . You had to spell your candidate’s name cor...  ...ossed). In fact, our forefathers regarded secret ballots with suspicion, arguing that they made voting for...

The United States began as an experiment in democr...  ...but not consistently. The idea of a truly secret ballot in American elections is a relatively recent inno...  ...ple died trying to get to the polls.By the 1880s, ballot reformers were looking for a new way to run elect...  ...te in secret. What an innova...