Coming across the thread from our US friends called The Truth About Voter ID put me in mind of what appears to me to be an anomaly in our own electoral practices here in UK.
We are always being assured that we have a 'secret ballot', while the fact of the matter is that the number of the ballot paper one receives at the poll is recorded beside one's name on the copy of the electoral register on which one is identified as eligible to vote at the polling station.
I am sure there are good reasons for this, and many safeguards in place to prevent access by unauthorised persons, and so on. But the fact remains that one's voting paper could be compared with the electoral register, and one's vote thus identified.
Whatever the reasons for this, it surely means that THE SO-CALLED 'SECRET' BALLOT IS NOTHING OF THE SORT; and that 'they' should stop telling us that that is what it is what we have got.