Gmar chasima tova!

You are right that secret ballots isn’t necessary according to the constitution. You can credit the pro-union democrats for that. However, I believe that it is in the state constitution and that might bind the feds to assist.

Finally we have a representative that does the right things. I was horrified to see that my poll wouldn’t be in secret. As described, my ballot was in the open for everyone to see, and I was shocked when the poll worker took it from me thereby seeing my vote. David knows how important privacy is. Secret ballots were made due to intimidation at the post-slavery era. If our ballots would be public knowledge, voters would do things different. E.g. We wouldn’t have the councilman that would care for it… Big brother would make sure.

Since this isn’t a civil rights issue, legally the Federal government shouldn’t be involved. Of course, spending money for Federal agents to make an extra trip is no problem – since they can always print the money. OR maybe give the part time election clerks time to learn the new system.