Australian Ballot

For John, BLUF:  Learning something new every day.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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So the "word of the day" is a term, Australian Ballot, also known as the Massachusetts Ballot.

This seems to me to be a common term across the Fruited Plain for a secret ballot.  What seems so fundamental to Democracy is actually a fairly new concept.  It was only in 1892 that the secret ballot was instituted across the United States.

This term came up on City Life today, introduced by someone from Dracut.

Regards  —  Cliff