how does India ensure the secret ballot
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The secret ballot, also known as the Australian ballot or Massachusetts ballot,[1] is a voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum are anonymous. This forestalls attempts to influence the voter by intimidation, blackmailing, and potential vote buying. This system is one means of achieving the goal of political privacy.
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the modern times the secret ballot system is adopted at the time of elections in almost all the countries. The main advantage of the secret ballot system is that neither the voters nor the candidate, are able to know which voter has voted in favour of which candidate.
In India, at the time of every election may it be of the President or the Vice-President, the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha, the state legislative assembly or local body, the method of secret ballot system is adopted. According to this system the voter is given a ballot paper by the presiding officer of the polling booth. The voter goes behind the curtain along with the ballot paper and marks the stamp against the name of the candidate whom he likes to vote. In this way, no one comes to know that to whom the voter has given his vote. But, now-a-days EVMs (ElectronicVoting Machines) are being used in the place of ballot papers. On the screen the name of the candidates with the symbols assigned to them by EC is displayed. The voter is asked to press button against the his/her choice of condidate behind a curtain maintaining the complete secrecy.