Should the secret ballot be abolished?

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For the sake of making hughento happy, the procedure originated in what is now South Australia in 1854. Some of us want voting to be more open and that "people should take the responsibility of what they say".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot

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I think all postal voting should be banned. Let's have more advanced polling opportunities for those who cannot vote on election day. And for voters living abroad, we should set up voting booths in diplomatic stations like embassies. With postal voting you never know what people are doing there. Who's actually ticking the boxes? Me? Or my bored little sister who selected everything for the MonsterRaving Looney Party?

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I think all postal voting should be banned. Let's have more advanced polling opportunities for those who cannot vote on election day. And for voters living abroad, we should set up voting booths in diplomatic stations like embassies. With postal voting you never know what people are doing there. Who's actually ticking the boxes? Me? Or my bored little sister who selected everything for the MonsterRaving Looney Party?

It's not like the same couldn't happen with in-person voting.  You're fully capable of voting the way your little sister wants you do in the polling booth, just as you're fully capable of letting your little sister fill out your absentee ballot.  You still only get one single vote.

True, but have you heard of all the problems Britain had with mail-in-voting-on-demand? If you can't be bothered to get to the polls you shouldn't vote.

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I'm ready to allow postal votes for those living more than a set distance from their polling station, and the infirm.

Maybe we should decrease the person-to-voting booth ratio so that people don't have to wait for three hours to vote.

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I just took that from reports that last November some Americans waited hours to vote. What I think is that the person running elections should not be a partisan figure. It should be an electoral judge, running an electoral commission just like every other sane country does. Also we should use paper ballots to reduce the risk of "black boxing". And, elections should be done on Saturdays so that people don't have to interrupt work AND hard-core evangelical Christians could vote too.

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maybe we shoud make a law saying if turnout in an election is below 50% the result is void, because the majority of the electorate voted by not voting.