The groups say that because the bill would do away with the secret ballot voting that allows employees to choose a union, it would pressure individual workers to sign on.

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Others are talking of MEPs voting in a secret ballot to avoid them being influenced by their national governments.

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The politician defeated Peter Roffey in the final round of voting, held as a secret ballot in the States.

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While the voting for the pope is billed as secret, with each cardinal guided only by his faith in God, the process is ultimately a closed-door exercise in consensus-building that cements fidelity to the Church's new leader among the inner circle.

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That the ballot might not be secret matters in a country in which the government has used voting data to deny jobs and government services to opposition supporters.

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While Wolf Blitzer is reporting to us on the Bush Administration launching an investigation of apostate truth-teller Paul O'Neill, the campaigns here are more interested in Byzantine conspiracy theories about the upcoming voting: has Carol Moseley-Braun cut a secret deal to help Howard Dean by attacking his opponents, or is she just making principled distinctions on issues?

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During the decades that reformers were lobbying for judicial elections, the secret ballot was thought to be more subject to political corruption than voting openly.

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And I am going to stop in Chicago to vote before this 48-hour day is done. (Applause.) I can't tell you who I'm voting for. (Laughter.) It's a secret ballot.

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Until the voting, even the names of the officials up for election were to be kept secret.

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