29th February 2004, 12:40 AM
You should let people vote without having to tell you all about who they voted for. There's a lot of very good reasons why secret ballots are secret in this country.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)