Complex sentence: The process of matching ballot papers to voters is permissible only if an Election Court requires it, and that is very unlikely; in fact the Election Court has never made such an order since the secret ballot was introduced in 1872.
Split into simpler sentences: The process of matching ballot papers to voters is permissible only if an Election Court requires it, and this is an extremely unlikely occurrence. In fact the Election Court has never made such an order since the secret ballot was introduced in 1872.