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UK Parliament on X: "Today marks 150 years since the introduction of the Secret Ballot Act in 1872. But what was this Act and how did it change UK voting forever? 🧵👇
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RNIB - Nearly 150 years after the Ballot Act, which guarantees the right to vote in secret, the Government's Elections Bill will, effectively, remove that right for blind and partially sighted people.
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Pontefract Museum - 15th August 1872 The first secret ballot in Britain was held at Pontefract, shortly after the Ballot Act of 1872 which ended the old practice of open voting which
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