In Australia, people can vote anonymously, something political scientists point to as a weird feature of a weird electoral system, though some advocate adopting this feature. Supposing this became widespread?
Would the corporatists who control the US government be able to stay in control without the ability to intimidate their employees into voting for them? A secret ballot would remove a great deal of that leverage if done right.
Thank goodness the so-called Australian ballot never caught on in America. The fact that each party in the US prints its own ballots is one of the things that prevented the US from being stuck with the Democratic and Republican parties (probably most of you have never heard of them but they *were* the dominant parties in the US when the Australian ballot was first proposed here--and might still be if it had been adopted). https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/gbN7Ly6xUI0/by93ragSuWkJ