Civic · 6 pages · 12 min
Why the Australian ballot is a technology
The Australian ballot is a government-printed, uniform, secret form, a tool as much as a rule.
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From the opening
The Australian ballot is a device: one official form, printed at public expense, listing the candidates, and marked in private. It replaced a scatter of party-printed tickets with a single artifact that voters in a precinct handled in the same way. The opening covers government prints one shared form, a private place hides the mark, and party tickets lose their color.
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Inside
- Government prints one shared form
- A private place hides the mark
- Party tickets lose their color
- Layout still steers the choices
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Australian ballot
- Government-printed secret ballot