Such elections shall be run by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot, guaranteeing the free expression of the will of the electors.

选举权必须普及而平等，并应以无记名投票法行之，以保证选民意志之自由表现。

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Yet Australians are proud of their democratic inheritance: the world's first parliamentary elections by secret ballot (in Victoria in 1856), female suffrage (in South Australia in 1894) and so on.

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