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As Americans prepare to elect a president next month, most of them can be confident in one thing: Each vote, whether cast by pulling a lever or checking a box or touching a computer screen, will be veiled in complete anonymity. For the most part, no one but the individual voter will ever know whether his or her vote went to President Bush, Sen. Kerry, Ralph Nader, or the family dog.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2004/10/4-mercuri1-450-2.jpg