>>Here in Utah they number each ballot and place that number by your name in the book they use to verify your name.
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>>Personally I don't worry about this too much. Look, by the time we get to where officials are able and willing to come after people based on whom they voted for our freedoms at that point will have been long gone anyway it seems.
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>Okay, I've checked all 50 now and here are my results:
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>30 state constitutions guarantee secret ballot
>18 more, I couldn't find that guarantee, but many of those use words like "free" or refer to "purity" of the ballot
>Texas specifically provides for identification of ballots
>Missouri's language was unclear
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>Here's the link again for the state constitutions. It links to the various state sites, where 49 have constitutions. (Kansas is the exception, if I remember right.)
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>And, fwiw, Utah is one of those that guarantees secret ballot. Sounds like what they're doing is unconstitutional.
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>Tamar

Tamar,

Interesting and thanks!

I wonder now about that numbering. They were clearly giving us a ballot and writing its number next to our names..

BTW, your link didn't show...