[PoachedSausage]

Its supposed to be a secret ballot.

Of course, most people tell their friends which way they voted, but that's their choice.

[jawbone3]

You mean you count not showing up to vote as an active vote choice that should be protected by secrecy? Because the secrecy of the physical votes is produced by the mixing of large numbers of indistinguishable containers prior to reading, not by the votes being handed in by strangers.