Why is my vote secret?

Why is my vote secret?

Thea Brodkin (Voter Service Chair) gives expert video advice on: How do I know when and where to vote?; How do I know what election literature is legit?; How do I know what I can vote for in an election? and more...

Yor vote Is secret & It's a long tradition in our country that your vote is your own and is nobody else's business. We've all heard those harsh stories of people buying people's votes, going into the bars and saying “I'll pay you $10 if you vote for Kennedy.” That may have been in the old days that may have happen, I'm not saying it didn't, but today when you go into the voting booth or you get your ballot sent to you at home, you have that right to make this decision, nobody can tell you how to vote. So it's important that nobody can check on how you vote. And when that ballot arrives at the Register's office, they can identify it is belonging to you so once you drop that ballot in the ballot box, we don't know which ballot is yours. Now you can call the Registrar of Voters after the election and they'll know if you voted or not because you've signed that register or not so they keep record of that they brought primary, they'll know that but they won't know who I voted for. So that's very important for our democracy.