Vote Ballot Casting- Governmental Modes

Vote Ballot Casting- Governmental Modes

1. Imperial Democratic Mode- Secret balloting is the manner votes are cast. This means certain government and/or certain officials know all the candidates chosen by all the voters. The secrecy provided to balloting is similar to the secrecy the Internal Revenue Service provides to a tax return.


2. direct democratic mode- Anonymous balloting is the manner votes are cast. This means no one really knows for certain any candidate chosen by any voter. In other words,no one knows who voted for whom other than his/her choice of candidate. This is the current mode in the USA.

There are two problems with this. First of all, the occurrence of vote fraud increases significantly. At least with secret balloting, vote fraud and voter fraud do not exist unless the supervising government agency officials is complicit. Most importantly, anonymous balloting is flawed because it gives no meaning to the votes cast. How can a citizen's vote be meaningful and credible if he or she does not attach his or her name to the choices of candidates cast?



3. Representative Democratic Mode-Public balloting is the manner votes are cast. This means all know for certain all candidate chosen by all voters. Many people will obviously resist this mode. However, freedom is never free and proper governance will always require a sacrifice. There is always a price to pay for basic liberty and civility and public balloting is one of the prices that must be paid.

Not only does this mode guarantee the non-existence of vote fraud and voter fraud, it restores meaning to each and every vote cast. Most importantly, it disallows non-serious people from choosing public officials and positions on referendums, thereby increasing the quality of the electorate. The proper quality of the electorate is important to keep governance in proper Representative Democratic Mode so that tyranny is kept to a minimum.