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Anonymous voting by legislatures is hardly unprecedented. Parliaments in many countries vote anonymously for the unseating of a member. In our own country, when no presidential candidate received a majority of the votes in 1800 and 1824, the House of Representatives voted by secret ballot to elect our president (and thus we got Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams...
With the changes in the Senate since its inception in 1787, the best way to accomplish that is through secret ballot...
...contrast, the voting was festive. Villagers chatted and schoolchildren played. Above them, paper bunting hanging on a string bore a hortatory slogan: EXERCISE YOUR SACRED RIGHT TO CAST YOUR BALLOT! Loudspeakers blared circa-1970s revolutionary songs as people marked the ballots on their lap. Not all residents were enthused. "These officials are all the same," a wiry farmer sniffed. "I'm not even voting." He complained angrily about the depressed price of pork and lambasted the "Zhu Ba" (Pork Despot), a local entrepreneur who has monopolized the buying and selling of pigs...
...nurturing democracy is a process." Chinese peasants typically do not think about the glories of remaking society. They think about smaller, more parochial matters like building roads and bridges and picking up cash by selling more kiwi fruit and pork. In their eyes, getting the chance to cast a ballot does not yet ring grandly of revolution. They'd rather find a way to get rid of the Pork Despot...
...think the very fact that Jesse won because of his celebrity is most distressing," says Steve Schier, a political-science professor at Carleton College. "There was this generational appeal for a wrestler by young voters who never cast a ballot before. It was not clear if they cared whether he could...