Privacy
Privacy: The ability to prevent others from determining how an individual voted.
Definition
The ability to prevent others from determining how an individual voted.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
Voting system is said to provide privacy when it makes it impossible for others to find out how the voter voted.
- Definition 3
The assurance that the confidentiality of, and access to, certain information about an entity is protected.
- Definition 4
A property of a voting system that is designed and deployed to enable voters to obtain a ballot, and mark, verify, and cast it without revealing their ballot selections or selections of language, display and interaction modes to anyone else. This does not preclude the ability of a voter to request assistance under state law.
- Definition 5
The requirement that no person be able to de termine how a voter has voted. Voting in the original Colonies was not private, but was c onduct by oral public declaration. However, each state now requires that privacy be afforded to voters, some by Constitutional provision, e.g. Pa. Const. Art. VII, Sec. 4: “All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot or by such other method as may be prescribed by law; Provided, That secrecy in voting be preserved.” See also AUDITORY PRIVACY, VISUAL PRIVACY.