From Steve Day
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Alison Motluk asks: “How can you be certain that the way you voted will
remain secret?”, thus perpetuating the myth that it is currently secret
(“Click on the candidate”, 26 April, p 26).
It isn’t—when you vote, your personal electoral number is written on
the stub of your ballot paper, which shares a unique number with the ballot
paper itself. All votes can therefore be traced.
