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							<title><![CDATA[What Americans Lost When We Abandoned the Secret Ballot]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael S. Kochin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My father likes to say that the secret ballot means that he doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have to listen when I tell him how I voted. This joke conceals a serious point: Ballot secrecy is not just a right of the individual but also a guarantee to all that my vote was not wrung from me by bribery or...]]></description>
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