one thing must confirm. if the polling ticket is issue at random
and not tagged to your polling card, then it is secret. if ticket
'1234' has to be issued to polling card '1234', then the chances of
them cross-referencing your poll card to the ticket issued can be
done. however if the ticket is issued at random to any poll card
number, then even if someone sees your vote at the counting centre
without seeing the card number issued to you at the polling centre
thehn there is no way anyone can check.
CONFIRM THAT please, then i can say VOTING IS SECRET!
The one who issue you the voting slip is not the one at the
counting station. The one at the counting station does not have the
voting list.
So if the one at the polling station sees you, your eyes shows
that you are paranoid, he remembers you, he memorise your number,
he cannot write it down, because there are political parties
members watching everything like a hawk, he must memorise. At the
end of the day how many can he memorise, and for what.
He must stay stay at the polling station until it ends.
The counting venue is elsewhere, with a different set of people,
and again with members of political parties watching everything
like a hawk.
You only need to ask any OPPOSITION party members whether voting
is secret. They will give you a resounding YES.
Voting is a very serious matter and must be taken seriously by
everyone. Just cast your vote and leave. No hanky panky. The voting
slip has two or three (if three cornered fight) blank boxes for you
to mark your X. The blank spaces is very good for writing and
drawing things. If there is no serial number many people will write
or draw who knows what, you can guess yourself what they can write
or draw. If they do, at the counting venue the ones that has
nonsense or vulgarity written on it will be taken out, and handed
over to the police. Remember voting is a very serious matter.Those
marked properly will be just counted and be lost in the piles and
piles of voting slips.
Again, ALL
voting slips will be under the scrutiny of members of all political
parties at the counting venue. All have to agree the defaced one
can be taken out and handed to the police.
These political parties members observe every thing, follow the
boxes, check box seals, box opened too slow/too fast complain,
helper look at slip too long, light too strong, light too weak, too
many people around, why this person there, why this person not
there, why the policeman stand so near, check and re-check the
count.
Its the OPPOSITION parties that can give you the assurance that
voting is secret and kept secret.
Only PAP moles want to spread the fear that it may not be
secret. For obvious reasons.
