[jambutty]

Originally Posted by MikeSz

The little slips you complete are not referenced. Yes, all the rest of what you say is correct, you have a register number etc, but when you go into the little booth, you will have been given a slip with no identifying features on it. As such, someone could tell that you have voted, or at least been given a voting slip, but there is no way of knowing how you used that slip

My vote was cast and it went like this.

I presented my Official Poll Card, complete with my number (SL2 658) on the register, to the clerk at the Polling Station.
As she checked my name off on her list, her colleague wrote my name on another list, alongside which was the pre-printed number of 02201.
She checked to see if she had the right voting slips pad, then removed a voting slip from it folded it in half and handed it to me.
With the voting slip folded in half she was able to check, without it looking obvious that she was doing so, that the number corresponded to the number on her sheet. And yes, you’ve guessed it - it was 02201.

So it would be possible for someone to find out how I, or anyone else, voted. Whether someone does is something that we are unlikely to ever find out, but the fact that it would be possible makes it UTTERLY AND TOTALLY WRONG and makes a nonsense of the claim that voting in this country is by SECRET ballot.