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Debunking The "Your Vote Is Not Secret" Myth

In the General Elections to be held next month, your vote is secret. It means that no one will know who you vote for. For many years now, an urban legend has been going around that has created so much fear among eligible voters. The urban legend goes like this: if you vote for the Opposition parties, your life will be adversely affected, your voting pattern will be recorded and bad things will happen to you. If you're a civil servant or someone who works for the government, you will be found out, and you'll lose your job. Yup, it's pretty scary. This myth is so well known that my informal polling last week still shows a majority of right-thinking, intelligent, university-educated people actually believing it, even today in the Youtube-Facebook 21st century. They believe it in a way that seems to ask, 'You mean there's something else to believe?' Now this is very unique among democratic countries in the world. While I understand that this sort of fear may be justifiable in rogue states where there is no rul

 

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