Keywords
Democracy
Voter
Secret vote
Corruption
Electoral poll
Ballot box
Electoral ballot
Voter
Secret vote
Corruption
Electoral poll
Ballot box
Electoral ballot
How to Cite
Fernández Ruiz, J. (2015). The legacy of George Gallup. Ciencia Jurídica, 4(7), 37–54. https://doi.org/10.15174/cj.v4i1.124
Abstract
The secret keeping of the sense of the vote has a double purpose. On the one hand, it tries to protect voters against possible pressures, threats and retaliations so that they can freely determine the sense of their vote and, on the other hand, it tends to avoid its trade, because it suppresses the possibility of verifying that the vote was cast in the way agreed on the sale. To this end, the vote has to remain secret not only when it is cast, but also when it is decided upon and after it is cast. Electoral polls are a generalized practice that threatens the secret nature of the vote, because they try to know for whom a voter tries to vote for, or for whom he or she voted for. So, they should be forbidden.The authors retain the copyright and must provide in writing the authorization for the first publication, via a computer network and printed to Juridical Science. Third parties are allowed to use the published information provided that the authorship of the work and the first publication in this journal are respected and made public.
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