Massachusetts Ballot Act

The Massachusetts Ballot Act of 1888 was the first US state law requiring secret ballots (then known as Australian ballots, and subsequently often referred to in the US as Massachusetts ballots). The law was written by reformer Richard Henry Dana III.

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